Ming (Agents of Speech) introduces the topic of stopping children from hitting parents from a behavioral psychology/ABA standpoint. He frames the problem around understanding the motivation behind hitting, arguing that each behavior has an underlying motive and that identifying that motive is central to addressing the behavior.
Let's talk about how to stop your child from hitting you. So I come from a standpoint where I do have a background in aba. So if you're gonna be triggered and think that it's an inhumane way to teach children, then it's okay to click away and think about other things. But I've done this for quite some time now, and I've had quite a lot of success teaching parents how to stop their children from hitting them. At the end of the day, you need to understand what hitting does. What's your child trying to do when he or she is hitting you? So understand the underlying reason for why. And the fundamentals of behavioral psychology is to understand the reason why, you need the underlying thesis about behavioral psychology, that each behavior has its motivation and its motive, and so on and so forth. Understanding why your child hits you is the most important thing.
