Re: Is it ok to hit a child ?
Peace bro Mirch
No ... I disagree with hitting children, even though I manage to hurt my children sometimes when moving them out of the way or pulling them away from something.
You are right that children do forget spanking. But it is not wrong for the reason of their mental attiude in my opinion. For me it is a test of my patience. If I hit my kids then I've failed my test.
I should realise that 9 time out of 10 kids annoy parents to get attention.
As a conscious and Muslim adult I should realise that it is an injustice to strike a child much weaker than me with no real sense of right and wrong. It is like saying the mentally handicapped person does not realise what is going on therefore it is fine to demean him. That is not true because I know what I am doing and that should be enough to repel me from that evil.
If it is illegal to strike an adult who can defend himself, then it should be more illegal to strike kids who are like dwarves to us adult giants.