Quote Originally Posted by Pebbles08 View Post
If your child smacks you in the face or does something else that hurts you, you wouldn't do it back to them. It would seem to me like we are telling them this behaviour is ok sometimes.
No, but when you hurt somebody in the big grown up world we separate you from your family and toss you in an itty bitty cell among other individuals who will do more than just bite you. And in some of the states (another so-called civilized nation) when you murder someone you are sentenced to death. We must always remember that we are not raising children we are actually raising adults. The lessons they learn now will carry the through the rest of their lives.

My point is that with parenting there sometimes IS a double standard in order to teach a lesson.