With most Australian schools having banned corporal punishment, it’s a reminder of how far we’ve come in eliminating the risk of physical harm from our classrooms. Despite the gathering strength of a global movement to ban it, corporal punishment is still routinely administered in schools in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This is despite the overwhelming evidence that physical punishment in schools inhibits learning and can be harmful to a child’s physical and mental health. These initiatives work to reduce corporal punishment by educating teachers about the negative effects of physical punishment on children, and offering them alternative approaches to use in classroom management. But eliminating corporal punishment in schools is not an insurmountable task, as our experience at home shows.