Would you ever hit a.... CHILD???

this so called teacher shouldn't be allowed around kids, teachers are there to take care of kids and educate them, NOT inflict pain on them, you must report this to the little girls parents immediately and file a complaint against that horrid teacher, no one is allowed to hit children these days, in this country children can now sue their parents if they are beaten or harmed, it's called child abuse, so please go to the parents and tell them what the little girl said to you and have this nasty piece of work reported and struck off, that teacher had no rights hitting any of her pupils let alone a little 3 year old...how dare she, if she cannot handle kids then why is she teaching them...she's disgusting....i would report this to prevent it happening again, this child did not deserve to be beaten with a wooden scale, no one should ever put their hands on someone elses child, brash or not, she should not be working with kids....i have 3 sons and even if they misbehaved i would punish them differently by taking away their privilages or grounding them, i have never ever hit my kids no matter how naughty they were nor have i ever hit another person...it's just wrong....this teacher needs to be reported, get a icture of her injury before it heals and take it to the authorities, this is just wrong....

if needed yes, but not that hard until they suffer hard damage. only hit them on spot that has lot of fats like the palm.

I believe a child should be punished but to beat a child or even hit a child beyond a slap on the wrist is child abuse in my eyes. Not only that the teacher at this school, by law is not allowed to touch the child. She should be turned into authorities and the matter should be investigated. I work at a childcare facility with the infants. They can be trying at times. They can sometimes cry excessively but that does not give me the right to try and silence them by using force. Children are defenseless. They cannot defend themselves against someone that is 10x there size. If I knew this teacher I'd walk up to her and straight up tell her that if she wants to hit someone hit someone her own size and proceed to step towards her. If she's the coward I believe she is she'd back down because she's only "strong and tough" when beating a defenseless child.

Report her to the child's parents and/or authorities immediately before something more serious happens.

Generally, I don't think hitting your child is a good idea as talking them out and make them understand what they have done wrong is much better.
However, I sometimes ask myself, does it make sense to talk about the mistakes a 3 year old child have been doing and "why" it is a mistake at all? I mean are they really able to understand anything you are talking at all?
Hitting them (I only mean to make them feel pain but not to hurt them) give them a direct understanding that something is simply forbidden. I understand that we have to forgive them of making mistakes but then we have to make them aware that sometimes, something is simply not accepted and if they still make the same mistake over and over again. Letting them feel some pain, from my point of view, is the most effective way of teaching them not to do that again.

A short, sharp punishment is much better and more easily understood than a thousand words of phylosophical discussion. A child is cunning enough to realise when they can get away with something and a few words or sending them to relax in their room is a joke and they know it.

Try the words first but then follow it up with a smack if the words fail. You may find that words are all you need from then on as the child will know what they will get if they overstep the mark.

Someone should never use violence as a threat if dis pleasured, however a spanking, even an old fashioned butt kicking in the grocery store is a much kinder fate then years of prison, fines or any other legal ramification of "mischievousness or naughtiness" as an adult.

If parents don't teach a child to respect authority, then a child is going to have a rude awakening when they reach the real world.

It is a parent's duty to prepare their child for survival and it would be a great disservice to any child if they didn't. Now I am not advocating child abuse, and I am not advocating using spanking in any but extreme cases, but the fear of a whoopin is an extremely effective tool when keeping someone who has yet to learn morals or ethics on the right path.

I really hate beating,especially beat the children.child needs being protected rather than hurt.u know no one give the right to hit/to hurt the kids.
although i am not a parent now,i was a child before.i can feel what they feel if being hurt by someone close to u.to children Bad experiences do hurt feelings.
teacher not a fighter,i do hope that don't happen again

I have had my kncukles rapped with a yardstick for being left-handed when I was in school. I survived a mother that bounced me off walls and left over 80 stitches in my scalp over the sixteen years I lived with her. When I became a father my greatest fear was that I "beat" my children the way my mother beat me. That being said. . .

We have a list of consequences based upon the severity of the offending act. From a simple discussion and lecture that guides them (the kids) into verbalizing how they're actions were wrong, to standing in the corner, to loss of privilages and yes, the last level is a spanking to be recieved the next day with both parents present. (I may take away their computer privalges in anger, but would never strike one of them in anger) Why would I spank my children, if I was beaten? Because, it is only used as a last resort and underscores that some things we do wrong are worse than others.

There is a fine line between "abuse" and "punishment", what works with some children, even in the same household, does not work with all children. Parenting is an education in human development, both the child's and the parent's.

I would never do that to my own child, this is child abuse. If I know my child's teacher hit her like that then I will not sitting still... I will go and ask or sue her for this... My child is a human, a little baby one and she hit her like she is an animal. NO>>> dont even touch my child in this way.
Im sorry, for all the madness but it is just piss me off so much. I do hit them but with my hand to her/his butt, just a little to make sure they get my attention... but a stick? NO. we have to do something about it.

I am not a parent yet, but I think I will spank my child as a form of discipline. Just so that they will no that what they did was wrong and later expalin to them why I spank them. But I will not beat them that they will be on so much pain and anguish. That would be abusive.