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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why I would cause physical pain to a child because I wasn’t willing to teach them to behave? At that point I would just not have children? Because things like biting, traffic, grabbing knives are all behaviors parents teach children not to do all the time, all over the world, without hitting them. Hitting them would just mean I was a failure and that hardly seems the fault of a child.[/quote]

Let me guess you either don’t have kids or don’t have defiant non-docile kids.[/quote]

Right? People teach their kids these lessons all over the world every day by either 1) the kid gets cut with the knife by mistake and learns by trial and error, or 2) gets a quick swat on the butt for grabbing the knife and learns to not do it again.

The only people who gently say “no, Henry, no knives please, no thank you!” 743 times over the course of his toddlerhood are helicopter parents whose children never have the opportunity to learn via the other routes. And when they do it at grandmas house a year later their hand will still get cut the same as it would have when they were a toddler. [/quote]

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