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(4) conduct regularly scheduled reassessments of each child’s plan of care to monitor effectiveness. (Eff. 1/5/2017, Register 221; am 10/31/2019, Register 232) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.25.001 7 AAC 41.213. Behavior guidance. (a) A licensed child care provider described in 7 AAC 41.200(a)(1) shall meet the applicable requirements of 7 AAC 57.535. A provider described in 7 AAC 41.200(a)(2), (3), or (4) shall meet the applicable behavior guidance of the accrediting, certifying, or approving agency. (b) A provider described in 7 AAC 41.200(a)(5) and (6) shall

(1) help a child to develop age-appropriate patterns of behavior that foster constructive relationships and increasing ability to deal with everyday life;

(2) provide for positive reinforcement, redirection, and the setting of realistic expectations and clear and consistent limits; and

(3) ensure that discipline or a behavior management technique used is not cruel, humiliating, or otherwise damaging to the child. (c) A provider described in 7 AAC 41.200(a)(5) or (6) may not

(1) remove a child in care from the other children for more than 10 minutes, except as provided in (d) of this section;

(2) discipline a child in care in association with food or rest;

(3) punish a child in care for bedwetting or actions in regard to toileting or toilet training;

(4) subject a child in care to discipline administered by another child;

(5) subject a child in care to verbal abuse, to derogatory remarks about the child or members of the child’s family, or to threats to expel the child from the child care;

(6) place a child in care in a locked room;

(7) physically restrain a child in care, except when necessary to protect a child from