• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Nah, even as a child that’s unacceptable. My kid is only 5 and I don’t let them hit people, and punish them when they do. The response from the parent shows the apple fell straight down

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      6 hours ago

      I never said it was acceptable. Do you call you’re children garbage when they misbehave? Does their behavior improve after you tell your child that you think they’re garbage? I don’t let my children hit anyone either, I just don’t call them garbage if they do.

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        2 hours ago

        Punishing is much more than violence against children, and hitting them is one of the worst ways to punish for many reasons.

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      16 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s unacceptable, but it’s also unacceptable to call a child a “garbage person” for acting like a child.

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        15 hours ago

        Regardless of the labelling, punching someone in the face is absolutely not “acting like a child”, it’s acting like a garbage person. That shit should not be tolerated or excused away to complain about labelling.

        And honestly, excusing away a kid battering their teacher as “acting like a child” is pretty goddamned unacceptable too.

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          15 hours ago

          My little brother threw a chair at his preschool teacher. This is absolutely shit kids do, that they need to be taught is unacceptable. You don’t teach kids to be better by writing them off as garbage humans, because they’re still learning.

          If you call your five year old garbage for acting out, you’re a shitty parent.