How To Respond When Your Child Hits You, Pt 2

Second thing is think about what the triggers are when that's going to trigger your child. Try not try to prevent those triggers. When you do have those triggers, you can't control it. Be sure to distance yourself away from your kid. I know sometimes that's not practical, but if you're really close to your kid, be sure to already start blocking their hands. Because if your child is able to hit even once, that's already reinforced and I think that's useful and they'll keep on doing it. All right. Other than preventing, we should try to give a neutral response without being overly dramatic. The thing about all this is not to ignore is to say in a neutral tones, that was not nice, that hurt me. And scolding that that that's an overreaction as well. So you want to go down to the neutral line and stay there. And why we want to do that is just in case our reactions actually reinforce and reward. It may actually be that way. And you want to limit that risk. Not telling you to ignore your kid, not telling you to not care about the emotions, just neutral tone. It's.