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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I saw someone beating a child or slapping an infant, I would possibly do something. But a parent smacking a 2 year old is how they apparently choose to discipline, whether you agree or not. So no I would not do anything in this situation. [/quote]

So who gets to discipline the dad by hitting him for hitting? It just seems so ironic, and completely futile in terms of discipline - to do the same thing to a child, that they're apparently being "disciplined" for.[/quote]

Look, I get that you don't agree with hitting to punish hitting. But that doesn't matter because some parents do and unless it really crosses the line, it's not physical abuse. The little girl wasn't hit for no reason; her dad was disciplining her. You don't have to like it or agree with it but it doesn't give you the right to speak up. I don't condone abuse at all and would absolutely intervene if I saw it, but you can't go around bitching out everyone who parents differently than you. He has triplets, maybe it's been a long, tough day. You don't know. But as OP described it it was not worthy of her intervention. [/quote]

This is not discipline, however - it teaches the child nothing. If anything, it teaches the child to do as daddy does. If daddy can hit, why can't little joe or jane? It doesn't give a consistent line or reasoning to a child - and yes, a 2 year old or toddler can pick up on those cues.  I don't believe in coddling your children, but I believe in setting and leading by example. Hitting a child that hits accomplishes nothing - it will just confuse the child, and lead to an ongoing cycle.

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I'm sure you have some pretty shitting parenting techniques you use.  That does not make it OK for people to intervene.  Shitty parents are everywhere, and you are not Batman.[/quote]

I was hit by a parent that had anger issues, so sorry if my empathy is getting in the way of you hitting your toddlers.

And yes, I am Batman. You can't prove I'm not!  :P [/quote]

If your Batman then im Robin!  :-)

i was also hit as a child and it's clear to me that it wasn't about discipline but about making sure i feared my dad. he also had a lot of anger issues. hitting your kids is just a lazy excuse to use them as a venting tool. there are many other and better ways to get your child to behave better than to make sure theyre scared of you[/quote]

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