When my daughter became a mother, her first born was a son. She never disciplined him physically and did the "time out" routine. At about age 4 he began to swing at her and hit her, hard enough to hurt. She would try to put him into time out for it but he would of course get up several times during these time outs and scream at her, pitch fits, attempt to hit at her again, rather attacking her. He was not totally out of control as I would notice he would have his eye on me - almost as if he was expecting me to do something. What would you have done, 1) as a mother, in my daughter's position; 2) as her mother, his grandmother? Am I being unreasonable to think I was correct by just walking away from the situation, i.e.,"Not my circus, not my monkey"?