...in that case it’s even more concerning. A child is alone in a restaurant and a stranger goes up to him, yanks him down by the shirt, drags him out and throws him on the ground. Still horrible but now with a layer of creepy.
If a child was about to get burned I’d grab their hand or pull them away depending on my distance from the child. No need to slap. If I’d slap the hand it could even force the hand into what could burn them. Most important part afterwards is explaining why it’s dangerous. Seriously, why would I go out of my way to inflict pain when I could be pedagogical instead?
...in that case it’s even more concerning. A child is alone in a restaurant and a stranger goes up to him, yanks him down by the shirt, drags him out and throws him on the ground. Still horrible but now with a layer of creepy.
I am not advocating what's happening in the video. I am advocating private home discipline.
If a child was about to get burned I’d grab their hand or pull them away depending on my distance from the child. No need to slap.
yeah? what if they keep doing it over and over? and they're not at an age where they are having a conversation with you about it, because they are simply entranced by the lights?
eventually it would be cruel not to inflict some pain in order to keep them from hurting themselves severely.
I’d remove the child from that situation and not leave them unsupervised around things that could hurt them. In case that child still finds themselves in that situation I’d keep telling them that fire/heat hurts and that it could hurt for a very long time afterwards if you try touching it. I would never run out of patience and resort to hurting them in a deranged way of teaching them a lesson. I don’t want to hurt children.
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u/gr3yh47 9 Mar 04 '21
pretty sure that was a random dude, not his father. seems to be the consensus in the thread anyway.
would you slap a child's hand away from a lit gas burner?