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Spanking a 6 month old....(Her response on page 2)
Someone on Facebook just posted about how kids are really disrespectful these days. I was totally tracking with her post until this part:
" My little Alyssa is 6 months old and she got a spanking the other day, yup at 6 months old! I told her 2 times not to touch something, while I pulled her hand away, because it was gonna fall and hurt her. She did it a third time and it fell inches from her head. I spanked her hard enough to let her know I'm serious, but not hard enough to hurt her. She hasn't touched it since and has had many chances to. I'm not saying to spank your kid for everything but hold them accountable when they do something wrong! AHHHH I'M SO MAD RIGHT NOW!!!"
Six months old and spanking? That's seems crazy to me....
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Re: Spanking a 6 month old....(Her response on page 2)
It is absolutely crazy. Poor little baby. They have no way to understand that the two are related (the touching of the "thing" and the spanking) And she's just doing what babies do - explore! That's how they learn. This makes me very very sad.
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I don't think spanking counts as child abuse. I don't agree with it, but it's not a reportable offense. . .
THIS!
My FIL told us to start spanking A right around the time that he became mobile (5 - 6 months?) because he needed to learn to respect us when we told him "no".
...yeah
this.
This. I would never in a million years do that. I was spanked as a child, but sure as hell not as a 6 month old!!
This - that's awful. I don't know what age it's really appropriate - but 6 months is WAY before you can reason with them! I couldn't imagine doing this to my DD now or even within the next year or so! then again, I personally don't think I could ever really do it to her.
Yikes! I would totally say something. This seems beyond ridiculous to me.
That's so wrong in so many ways. I don't understand how any mature, educated adult could think that a 6-month-old is developed enough to understand cause an effect that way? The poor thing.
DD was cranky this evening right before bed and she grabbed at my face roughly and scratched my nose. I grabbed her hand gently, made her meet my eyes, and said "no" sternly - didn't yell, just used a louder-than-normal-serious-voice - and she still started crying her eyes out. She knows what no means and she's very sensitive to it. I don't even want to think of what I'd be doing to her emotionally if I spanked her after saying no.
Umm I don't think I could be friends with someone like that!
Me either. I don't have enough restraint.
I'm just lurking from 6-9, but this makes me extremely sad. Poor baby.
This.
I couldn't either. That is not OK in my book. Poor baby...
What was this "something" is what I'm wondering. The "something" fell inches from her head, that sounds scary.
This idiot should have not had this "something" within reach of LO and once she realized it was in reach of LO, she should have moved it. It sounds like it was dangerous and yet the mother kept letting LO go for it. That baby has no concept of the "something" being dangerous and will still not understand after a spanking, anyone with half a brain should know that.
The correct way to handle this would have been to move the thing and re-direct the baby. My goodness. And I can't believe people were basically saying "you go girl" to her, I wonder if they actually read the whole post.
Sorry, but I can't imagine my "friend" telling me this kind of bullshiit and not calling them out on it. That is beyond disgusting!!! I would feel ashamed of myself.
This is the update/response to me telling her that her daughters brain wasn't developed enough to know what in the heck she was doing:
That may be true, but she hasn't touched it since. She looks at it, but doesn't touch it. It's a sconce on the wall next to her changing table, so she sees it everytime she gets her diaper changed. I was raised to not touch things that weren't mine. I'm going to do the same with my child(ren). I don't believe you should have to change everything around in your house. Baby-proofing yes, of course! But not taking things off the walls, I'd rather teach them not to touch what isn't theirs. And like I said I told her no in her face 2 times before and pulled her hand away, I didn't spank her right away. Every parent is different and what works for me might not work everytime or for anybody else. That doesn't mean I'm not gonna try to teach my daughter from day 1.
I'm even more pissed after reading her response. She's a freakin' idiot and needs her own @ss whooped!