DD hit my friend - should I have dealt with it differently?

[milliec]

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[mumonthenet]

sounds like you did perfectly, milliec.

textbook parenting, if you ask me.

[Twiglett]

perfect response I think

[funnypeculiar]

Sounds perfect to me What are you concerned about?

[Dynamicnanny]

Well Done

[milliec]

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[newgirl]

sounds ideal

she is still learning so that sounds firm but right for her age

[funnypeculiar]

But she didn't just get to say sorry, did she - you put her in her room too.
Fwiw, my dd is a bit younger than yours & hits a LOT - esp her brother - I don't think i deal with it half as well as you have

[SmugColditz]

She's very young, you have been amply strict but not cruel.

I think a mistake we parents make sometimes is that we know we are doing the right thing, so we subconsciously expect the child to be happy about it - and when they start blarting and whining, we worry if we have done a bad thing!

We haven't, it's them in the wrong, not us!