Across the Same Words collection
Hitting
6 prepared situations from 4 family areas. Choose the moment that is closest to yours.
Hitting the little oneTwo Children · When they hurt each otherAt two and three, the gap between feeling something and doing something is close to zero.→Defending what is theirs without hittingBig Skills · With other childrenA child whose tower is being knocked down has two routes available: hands, or words.→The daily report says your child had a bad dayEvery Grown-Up · Daycare and sittersA line on a form — difficult day, lots of tears, hit a friend — arrives with no tone, no context and no chance to ask a question.→An adult grabbed or hit your childEvery Grown-Up · Something happenedThis is the hardest situation in the book, because two instincts arrive together and pull in opposite directions: protect the child, and keep the peace with an adult you may have to see again — a relative, a neighbor, somebody on staff.→Hitting you during a meltdownBoth Parents · MeltdownsAn overwhelmed body discharges through the hands.→Hitting or pushing other kidsBoth Parents · With other kidsAt two and three the impulse arrives before the words do.→