A Script How to stay calm when your child lashes out.

What to do if your kid hits you in the face. Do not raise your voice. When your child hits you and laughs do not lose your calm. For younger children those between 18 months and 2 years keep it simple.

Every time she starts to hit gently catch her hand and say Touch nicely while showing her how to touch nicely. Most minor contusions will fade away and disappear within a couple of weeks. For example reward your child for using gentle touches.

Wrap the ice in a cloth or use prepackaged ice packs that mold to areas of the face. These actions may make an impact on your child and the choices he makes. Be prepared that you may have to do it more than once for a child to realize that.

Gently ask them why they did it. And in Oklahoma the law allows for a parent to hit a child with a switch as long as the parent only uses ordinary force TIME reported. Get a punching bag or biting bear.

Ice packs can help reduce swelling if you can get your child to keep it on her face. Although far enough back so that he cant hit her face. Its also important to talk to your children about aggression during a calm moment.

Also by having these complaints on record you are leaving a paper trail. Newtons First Law of Motion tells us that for an object like a baseball or a Fiat or a bullet to come to a stop it needs to give up all of its energy to another object. When it comes to hitting a lot of the time your child will stop after a couple of times after they realise they are hurting themselves.