Moving from One to Two Starting a Family Your Own Little Universe Interacting with the Big World Home as a Safe Harbor Keeping the Magic Alive Relationships Are the Center Fixing It When It Breaks As Your Family Grows Up Why Are You Doing This?

Part Five / Home as a Safe Harbor

Chapter 12    Hitting Kids
Chapter 13    Boundaries
Chapter 14    Family Meeting
Chapter 15    Sense of Humor

Don’t.

That really should be the end of this discussion. Whole books have been written on why not to hit your children, but all you need to remember is: don’t. If you need reasons:

You’re bigger than they are.

It doesn’t work.

It sends the wrong message.

There are always more creative solutions.