We have said it many times, active and passive: slapping, cheeks, whipping, are not an educational method and it can have serious psychological and physical consequences for children.
Despite the moments of crisis that adults live in these complicated moments, we do not realize that the situation has overcome us, we have overflowed and acting violently we do not teach the child anything, possibly what we do is complicate things in the future.
The children see that we have not known how to resolve the conflict and we are subtracting possibilities for them to know how to resolve conflicts in their environment, with their friends ... Violence as a resource will probably be used by this child with other children and, when he grows up, perhaps with other adults, even with his own parents.
In spite of everything, there is still a long way to go so that a good part of the population understands that hitting children is not right and it is a crime like hitting anyone.
This video of Faros (the portal of the Sant Joan de Déu Maternal and Child Hospital of Barcelona) has seemed great because in a little more than three minutes an expert clinical psychologist and head of the Psychology section explains clearly why slaps are not useful and It offers alternatives.
Reflection, stopping for a minute to think about what is happening, dialogue with the childTaking distance are attitudes that could avoid these situations that often hurt parents once they have happened. Perhaps it is one of the purposes you have done recently and it never hurts to remind us of these things ...
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