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I am a firm believer in gentle discipline and will never, ever use corporal punishment. However, I'm curious how you guys handle when you see others who do use this type of punishment when you may have a chance to intervene.
So here is the situation: it involves a family at our church where the mom thinks that spanking/hitting her child (who is only TWO years old, and barely two at that) is the only way to discipline. After church one evening, her daughter pushed my daughter while playing, and her mom immediately grabbed her and hit her, hard, on side towards her bottom. I was instantly horrified. The girl was overly tired at the time, and clearly just needed to be hugged and put to bed. I grabbed my DD and walked right out of the room wishing I could erase DD's vision of watching a mom strike her own child.
So now I'm at a loss for what to do. How do you help someone find gentle discipline resources? How do you let others know that their *is* a better way?
So here is the situation: it involves a family at our church where the mom thinks that spanking/hitting her child (who is only TWO years old, and barely two at that) is the only way to discipline. After church one evening, her daughter pushed my daughter while playing, and her mom immediately grabbed her and hit her, hard, on side towards her bottom. I was instantly horrified. The girl was overly tired at the time, and clearly just needed to be hugged and put to bed. I grabbed my DD and walked right out of the room wishing I could erase DD's vision of watching a mom strike her own child.

So now I'm at a loss for what to do. How do you help someone find gentle discipline resources? How do you let others know that their *is* a better way?