It does to an extent, after long conversations with my friends and family I have slightly modified approach. If a child or little one strikes me I arrest the offending appendage, make direct eye contact and then have them explain in detail why they did what they did.

Well, I was spanked as a young child, and I never hit anyone or thought it was okay. So I'm not sure this holds up statistically.

You can't make a general statement like that, just like I can't tell you that "everyone who has been hit/spanked as a child will be perfectly fine when they grow up". It all depends on the situation, the environment, the parents, and probably most importantly, the child.

I have a four year old niece, and like all kids, she went through a hitting phase not long ago. We were out to dinner during the height of her hitting phase, I was seated next to her, and she kept hitting me but I kept doing the thing you're supposed to do, gently restraining kiddo's hand and telling her not to hit,…

I've seen enough kids successfully raised in that way that your not gonna change my mind. I'm not talking excessive force here.

I've intervened when I've seen children hit one of my relatives and the parents didn't do anything. I didn't touch the kid, but I did grab the kid's hand and serve up some words that the kid absolutely understood. The parent was pissed at me, but the episode has not happened again.

A lot of kids go through a hitting phase, including ones who have never been hit by an adult in their lives. Toddlers test their limits in a lot of ways.

I'm sure it's a boundaries issue - if you see your child as a narcissistic extension of yourself, then their behavior can't possibly be wrong.

Because most parents are seeking their children's approval instead of the other way around. I remember when my son was 2-3 years old and throwing a tantrum in the store, after telling him to stop it several times I said you need to stop it right now or you will be punished. Some guy in the next aisle threatened to…

I think the "big for his age" idea is a good point. When I was interviewing my day care provider, I met one of the other boys at day care and he seemed incredibly immature to me. I was a little uneasy about sending my baby with company of what looked like a bratty child, but I found out he was just a very, very large…

Homer knows how to deal with that:

Ugh, I have seen the exact same behavior, and it baffles me that the parents who will not discipline a child who is lighting the couch on fire are the exact same parents who are obsessed with talking about how adorable said child is.

That's BS. Somehow my four children learned with a firm NO and a smack on the hand that hitting mommy is something you don't do. And they didn't turn out to be angry little abusive assholes, either.

My friends have a 4 1/2 year old who was aggressively hitting her father one evening when a bunch of us got together. She was the only child there, and thank god because I can't imagine how she would have been if other kids were around to steal her thunder. She was running around the house like bull, throwing fists…

See my comment above. When she first started hitting, I said "we don't hit people in this house" to which she replied "we hit people outside?" I had to stifle my laugh. But we give her the "stern" voice and tell her hitting is wrong and make her apologize (without whining) to the person she hit. You can't ignore the…

Why do parents allow their kids to hit them??? I was waiting in line at a store and a kid who looked to be around 3 had a pacifier (he seems a bit old for a pacifier, but maybe I'm wrong) and when his mom took a book out of his hand to put it back on the shelf, he slapped her in the face. She didn't do anything! …

Considering I once did hot yoga behind a girl going commando while wearing short shorts who proceeded to queef in my face....please, for the love of god, wear underwear with your short shorts in yoga class.

Man alive, the thought of going commando in a dress is pretty much my worst nightmare. I'm all about the underwear, too, and even if this trend becomes a real thing...I'll happily sport my grandma panties until the day I die. They will become my freak flag.

Only Jake Ryan could get me to go commando.