USNavyVet
VIP Member
Situational thought experiment;
Your 4 year old gregarious child climbs up onto the kitchen stove and is about to place a hand on a hot burner.
Do you...
A) Grab the child off the stove and give a lecture.
B) Grab the child off the stove and give a spank.
C) Let the child figure it out by trial and error.
??
Warn the child the first time, and tell the child that it is hot, and they should not touch. If the child ignores my warning, I'd let them touch the burner.
They will never touch it again, and will listen to me when I say that something is hot. Sometimes you have to let people figure things out for themselves.
That, my dear, is child abuse. Please don't reproduce. Thank you.