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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.

I did actually address it when it happened; I told him that hitting is unacceptable (but he already knows this- he's 7, not 2).  What I ended up doing was asking that he write an apology note, which he did. We discussed that I understood that he was upset, but that hitting is not the answer.

It didn't occur to me to ask the therapist what to do, but maybe I should have. I felt like it's a parenting issue, not a counseling issue. Her job is to help him deal with the anxiety and anger so that he doesn't get to the point of hitting and my job is to deal with the consequences/aftermath if he does.  Maybe I'm wrong in this belief.

I felt judged because I was embarrassed that there'd been a buildup of his refusal to go in alone.  This isn't a pediatric practice, so there were adults waiting too.  I realize that by the very act of being in counseling, everyone there has a some sort of issue and that I was being irrational, but at the moment, I was embarrassed.

And to 9:20, no, neither my husband nor I hit/spank/swat/slap/physically discipline our children, and in return, we don't expect our children to do so to us either.[/quote]

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