Is it wrong to hit your child?

I don't think there is wrong with that. The only concern is HOW DO YOU HIT YOUR CHILD? Sometimes hitting a child will make them remember that whenever they will do something not nice there is always a "painful" consequence that goes with it, taming that child a little but not fully. when you hit a child tell her/him why you hit him/her. The pain from hitting is not acceptable enough for the child but do not let add confusion to your child's mind. Make sure he/she knows why she was being punished. And parents, when you can't help hitting your children, don't hit out of rage and impulse but rather to discipline.Hitting with anger could be dangerous, sometimes it leads to a serious crime. Remember, hate the bad things your child did and not the child itself..

Many parents are short tempered soon.Kids are kids.They will make easily anger.We must never hit them in the young age.I always feel that we never hit an child even he becomes big.They dont know if u hoit also.They cant undersatnd. U have to tell them slowly and make them to understand.It reaches so quickly than hitting. Am i correct Friends?

Hello friend. I don't think that it is a good idea to beat our children to teach them. It is better to teach them by giving some convincing reasons so that they understand better what is wrong and what is right. I never beat my children.

Beating the child was a very wrong move. Before I always hit my kids if they misbehaved but sooner I realized that it doesn't work in controlling them. I just found out that the more I hit them the more they misbehaved. So most of the time now I do talked to them if they do some mistakes.

I think a pat on the diaper or a smack on the hand never hurt any child as long as it stays just that. It needs to hurt feelings more than anything if you know what I mean. When they get older and understand a little more then rewards need to be taken away as do time out is used. Everyone has their own way of doing things. I do not believe any child should be hit or slapped where scars, bruising or red marks are left.

of course not.I don't believe violence in any form and in or out of family.kids need enough love and patience instead of being beaten.I regaard breeding children as an art.unfortunately,everyone study how to read and write,how to make a living at school,but there is no one teach us how to treat one's own children at shool.when I see someone yelling at his child and even beat the child,I feel ashamed for him.It's impossible to be kind and patient to everybody in the world,but it's absolutely necessary be kind and patient to one's family,espacially little children,who take parents as his or her sky,the whole world and completely depend on them.so children shouldn't be treated crudely,let alone be beaten.

Please, please, please, do not hit your child. I made that mistake with my older son. Fortunately he is a very loving and caring boy. It could have been the other way. I did this just following what my mother did to us. So I thought it was right. Then common sense prevailed and I stopped it as my younger son was gowing up. I realised, our children have to obey us and not the stick or hand or anything else. Look at children and animals with the same eyes. You tell them with love and they will love you back in return.

Not all children respond when they are beaten.I myself experience it in my childhood and i always felt it is unnecessary.Depending on child psycology beating them will not always be helpful as some children due to fear may obey if beaten but others may not.My auty always tries the rude methods of beating while teaching school children and it works for her and after that many children got good results. When i was child i got some severe punishement then i couldnt bare the pain and used to think why they are beating me unnecessary just for not getting 1 mark in a subject. Similary some of my friends use to laugh and were given punishments regular and they never response to it or do not care about it as they are used to it.

We have had this discussion before so I wont go too deep into it. Basicly hitting a child is violence. When a parent finds that they have to resort to using violence in order to control their children then they have failed. It is their failure not the child's. You get people who will tell you that their parents hit them and it did not do them any harm. How do they know? They have no knowlege of what they would have been like had their parents brought them up properly so they do not know if any harm was done or not. Of course parents hitting children is not uncommon and I suspect in most cases the harm done is real but minor. However it does carry a high risk of doing permanent and serious damage.

well to me there is a different in beating your kids and displacin them. if they are bad then yeah i belive they should get a spanking but just because you have a bad day and come home and hit your kids just because isnt right. when my kids was younger they did get spankies when they were bad. up until 13 or 14 yrs old. i had a lady tell me once because i gave one of my kids and slight slap on the leg in the store because they were acting up she was like you are abusing that kid!!! i was like no i am displining them for being bad. but i think how they have the law now you cant spank your kids is wrong this why we have issues with kids being worst now these days then back when we were growing up because me and my siblies got spankies when we were bad only

There is no reason to hit a child at all. There are time-outs or just plain talking to a child. This is what I do with my 3 year old granddaughter. When she starts to do something bad or wrong I tell her what the problem is and she usually stops on a dime. If you talk to a child and not yell at them most of the time they will do the correct thing. Hitting a child makes them grow up to be different people. Its then repeated with their kids because that is all they know. My parents hit me and my siblings but I refused to hit my girls. I just knew there was a better way.

I think it's all right to hit your child at a young age because that is how they learn.When i say hit i mean a moderate smack on their butt or back without applying too much force that they bleed,bruise or are noticeably hurt.We all learn through some form of reinforcement of behavior and hitting is a good way to do it.Don't get me wrong,i don't think it's all right to "beat" your kid.If it's discipline you should make sure the child knows why he/she is being hit.Also it should not be a hit and run where you hit them and then don't talk about it.Overall its not wrong to hit your kid if it's a way of punishment to change "serious" negative behavior.You can't hit then for Every time they do something wrong.

I totally disagree with beating a child no matter what they have done. Childhood is a trial and learn time, and they need to be allowed to make mistakes. If I do have to punish my child I often do time-out or take away a privilege. As a child I was punished in extreme ways. I find it cruel and would never put my child through that.

I am so against violence.Beating a child is sure a cruel thing to do.If there are innocent people left in this world,those are the children.They do not deserve to be treated with cruelty.

Yes, I think it is wrong to hit a child even when he does something wrong. There is a Chinese saying that loving mother would have a bad son. I have to admit that physical punishment may be useful in a sense, but it also has many negative effects on both the body and soul of a child. It is the duty of the parents to educate their children but it should be in proper ways. To hit children is an incorrect way to teach them to be correct, isn't it some ironic?

I would agree to most of you guys, it's really not good to hit your kids. Most kids need the parents kind, loving and caring words. I would say it's better to talk to them first in a slow manner that what they did was wrong and they shouldn't be doing it again. There is really an effect to kids when they grow if you hit them. And they might be violent to other kids when they see that what they are doing is bad.

NO! There are ways to teach a child that they have to learn from their choices if they chose to take something without asking then they can't go to the park ETC.

Most people will disagree this kind of education method.Kids will receive the message that they will be hit after making mistake or prank, to instead of understanding by themselves which are not the good way to make them happen. That means, what they know the cost from this behavior, they will get painful by hitting,and that is the main reason for them to stop making them next time,but not the sincerely undstanding some serious trouble will be caused after this mistake,or the prank,example some people will get hurt or upset by it. So the correct way is to teach the kids to think about others.How they can do it well? Try to let him image to exchange the roles with others who will be get trouble by it,to let him learn how to show their love and sympathy,let this to be the leading way in their growing living.

There is a thin line between "disciplining" and "beating" a child. There are lots of ways to discipline a child, one of which is spanking or physical discipline which i personally believe is not wrong given that you do not abuse. Even the bible says that we should not hesitate to "discipline" our children and at an early age. However, it is also important to explain to the child why there is a need to do such actions (This is something that most parents neglect).

In our country parents usually beat there child physically if they are commit mistakes because for us it a sign of love.They beat there children so that the children learn that what they did is wrong and they will have fear that if they do it again they will get hurt.But parents also explain why they do it because they want the best for you.