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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

It's a self-justification process; usually they did / do hit their own children so they have to make it "necessary" in their minds in order to make it OK... and so, people who don't do the same must be raising brats.

It's some of the worst logic I've ever heard, though... one of the absolute basics of child psychology is that they're little behavioural sponges for the first couple of years. If you hit them when they don't do what you want, you're teaching them to hit others when they don't do what they want. And very little else!

Yes, exactly, I mean that makes so much sense, I don't get how logically people don't see that. I mean you would be arrested it you hit another adult but people still think hitting a little child is ok? It makes no sense at all to me.

And in regards to your other post about that other book That is pretty vile, leaving your baby cry till she/he vomits?? Jesus christ, I don't even know what to say about that