RE: Spare the rod, spoil the child
July 16, 2014 at 1:15 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2014 at 1:21 pm by Losty.)
(July 16, 2014 at 12:45 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(July 16, 2014 at 12:21 pm)Losty Wrote: I wouldn't do the same. Every time someone brings this kind of situation up, I fail to understand why a person wouldn't just grab their son's hand instead of slapping it.
Perhaps you're right. I review everything I do as a parent, and I don't always live up to what I think is the optimal solution. It was what I did, in the moment, and this is the sort of corporal punishment I've inflicted on my son, in most instances -- again, never required very often. I suppose I reacted as I did for speed's sake.
What you did wasn't punishment. You reacted instinctually to protect your child. I wasn't trying to imply that I thought what you did was wrong. I was just saying I have a hard time understanding why people's gut reaction is to slap the hand away instead of something less violent. Whatever you did, you stopped your baby from getting severely burned so I'd say you made the right choice regardless of whether I would have done it the same way.
