When My Daughter Hits Me Is It Legal To Hit Her Back?

I think there are multiple answers to this question. The first two answers are easy to find.

The first answer is the legal answer; It is completely dependent on the state or country that you are living in. Ask a legal authority in your area.

The second answer is the moral answer; this one is dependent on your religious laws. Ask your priest/preacher/rabbi/imam etc. for the answer.

Third answer is the personal and most difficult answer which is based on an honest answer to the following: "Why do you want to hit her back?" If it is punitive then NO. If it is to teach her "proper respect for her elders" then ask yourself if she is the kind of person that responds properly to that form of discipline or will she learn better if you give her another form such as removal of privileges or shunning. Of course this all depends on her age as well as her temperament.

My daughter's personality was to much like mine for corporal punishment to work. What worked for me and my daughter when she went through that stage was to act hurt and then refuse to play with her for a while (a mild form of shunning). After about the third time she never did it again.

I hope this helps....

Punishment of any sort is not thought to be good in any society or country of the world. This punishment may be to the children or elders or to any one; it is neither liked nor promoted. Now we come to your question that when my daughter hits me. Is it legal to hit her back can be narrated in the following term.

When we talk about any systems, which prevail in a country or in a house, these systems should be run according to some rules and regulations. If we don't adopt these systems, the work of the country or of the house cannot be considered to move in a smooth condition. The youngsters should respect their elders and in turn elders should love their youngsters.

This is what the normal behavior and attitude of almost all the families and if it is not followed, the things will go worse. First of all try to make your daughter realize her mistake and if she does not listen to you then it becomes legal to hit her back. Only then she will realize her mistake and she would not repeat it.

Welcome to a very grey area. Of course anyone who strikes someone else with the intent to do them harm is committing assault but it is illegal to strike a child in many places. Don't fight fire with fire, an eye for an eye mentality tends to teach that violence is okay to the people who are committing it.

Instead, you remove their privieges and shut them down that way. I don't know how old your daughter is, she could be three or thirty three. Clearly state in a very low clear voice do not hit your own mother.

Do you want to hit her back? Is that why you are testing if it is legal? Do you really want to hit her? Does that seem like a good thing for a parent to do to a child (of any age). Surely you can think of a better solution than that.

The question as to if it is legal to hit a child, depends not only on the state you reside in, but also how that state defines abuse, and how they define corporal punishment. The question you should be asking is not is it legal, but rather what can I do to help me get form a close loving relationship with my child. What you need to do is get him or her to trust and respect you, and hitting a child will not get you that. It will only create a child who #1 will mistrust you and most if not all adults. Your child will also feel hurt, anxious, terrrified, etc, and mostly your child will learn that when a person gets frustrated, it is ok, to hit them. The old saying that violence begets violence is very true. Please reach out to parent support groups, and parenting classes in your community. I would also recommend Individual counseling for you and or your husband, if you find that parenting groups are not enough. Or couples counseling if you and your partner have parenting styles which clash. Learning to parent is a life-long process, so be patient with your little one, and yourself. One of the things that is very helpful from getting professional help, is getting the feedback from a professional. For example when my son was 3 years old, I faced an issue where a power struggle ensued, he did not want to go to bed at his regular scheduled time, which was at about 8:00PM, after much frustration and pleading with him, we came to a compromise, I told him he still had to go to bed at 8:00PM, but I would allow him to stay up in bed, and read himself to sleep. It worked out really well. In hindsight he was probably just afraid of the

Yes, it is legal.

No, you should not do that, she might have done it in haste,just forgive her.