While I do not think it is ever okay to do something like taping kids down or holding them down, I see Playfelt's point as well. In my home daycare, I would never need to even daydream about such a thing because if no disciplinary measures are working then I would terminate the child as it would most likely be a case of parents not disciplining at home. Daycare centres don't have this leeway I am guessing, nor do schools and boy do I feel sorry for teachers these days! In my son's JK class there were so many disciplinary problems that when we went for our parent teacher interview, all the teacher had to say about our son was "He is so nice". My son has been kciked, hit, punched, bitten, etc by both girls and boys and he is in a good school and they are doing their best. It is sad that our society is getting to the point that kids are driving adults insane with bad behaviour and the adults don't seem to know how to turn the situation around. And another trend I have noticed is that most parents seem to think their kids should no longer nap when they turn 3 or maybe 4 max...so they are not napping at home or having any downtime at all. I wonder what recourse daycare centres have for kids who refuse to lay on their cots at quiet time etc? Can they be kicked out for such things?