There's an online petition about intervening when a child is being hit in public. It's called "Step Up to Prevent Hitting" http://www.nopunish.net/stepup.htm You sign it by sending your name, city & state (or country) to Norm Lee at norm@nopunish.net
Norm has some ideas on interventions http://www.nopunish.net/interven.htm
http://www.nopunish.net/lac.htm
I believe that it is important to say something against spanking/hitting that the child being hit will hear. This is so important to the child. But doing so will invariably invoke defensive or aggressive responses from the hitting adult.
Doing an intervention by means of distraction could be very effective in stopping the hitting. But the child won't hear the important message that hitting is wrong.
Norm has some ideas on interventions http://www.nopunish.net/interven.htm
http://www.nopunish.net/lac.htm
I believe that it is important to say something against spanking/hitting that the child being hit will hear. This is so important to the child. But doing so will invariably invoke defensive or aggressive responses from the hitting adult.
Doing an intervention by means of distraction could be very effective in stopping the hitting. But the child won't hear the important message that hitting is wrong.
