Slapping a child

[Dalemp]

12 year old boy purposely sticking his leg to trip up an adult. There are no SEN issues; he is doing it for kicks.

The woman in question didn’t fall, and managed to regain her balance, otherwise she would have crashed into a brick wall.

There was no violence but she was going to hit the child but managed to regain her composure. I am not so sure I could have.

Violence is never the answer. By slapping him, you would be teaching him it's OK to hit if you're bigger than the other person.

This does not mean that you can't come down like a tonne of bricks in other ways.

He may be a little shit, but you still don’t hit children.

You can't hit a child, it's that simple

Hitting a child is never ok. Give him consequences without using violence.

Not ok unless the child was choking.
Was it purposeful or an instinctive reaction?

Would you slap an adult in the same circumstance?

Someone trying to injure me unprovoked? Absofuckinglutely.