is it ok to spank a 6 month old?

Question

My son is 6 months, im a new mom and im 18 so i dont know much. But i do know when my son goes to his grandma's he gets spanked for touchin her stuff. I have been having nightmares from it as well i guess cause i dont like it to much. But is there anything to be worried about she spanks his hand that's all. But i think they shouldnt be popped untill they at least understand there word no. When he gets into stuff at my house we say no-no and move him back and we put what ever it is he got into up unless its decorative stuff theni dont believe in putting it up but im i ok for doing that just sayin no-no or is she right by popping his hand. Thanks for all the advice

Answer 1

No.A 6-month-old won't understand why do you spank him and just will get upset.Buy some books on parenting and learn how to deal with little children.

Answer 2

Absolutly not! Thats horrible, you should never really spank your child regardless of age, especially not a 6 month old. He's just a baby and doesn't know any better. He's a typical baby, babies learn by exploring things, by touching things, putting things in their mouth, smelling and all that. That's how they make sense of their world. I'm an Early Childhood Educator, and I've worked with infants and I can see your trying to work with the baby and you also think its not right to spank a baby, but try telling her instead of spanking him to say, "Let's find something you can explore with your hands" and find something for the child to play with. It works so much better than even saying no no. This way you are explaning to the child whats about to happen and your giving him something to do. I think the grandma should be more concerned about spending time wiht the child and being happy to get to spend the time with her grandson rather than spanking the child for touching things. Maybe you can suggest to grandma to spend more quality time with the child, such as read baby books, simple things like even putting cheerios in a ziploc bag for the baby to feel would be a different experince for your son and it would keep him occupied adn he'd have something to do with his hands. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

I don't think at 6 months old he needs a spanking. Although he is at a point where you need to start teaching him what no means,and how he is to behave. I have a 2 year old niece and at 6 months she understood what no meant. When she got close to something, we would tell her no no. She knew that she was to stop whatever she was doing. In fact, at 6 months she would no also, and use it in the proper context.

So I think a 6 month old can understand what no means, but only after you have started teaching him. So I think he needs to be at least 12 or 18 months before he is spanked. At 12 months you can barely tap their hand and tell them no and they will start to learn what is going on.

Sometimes people under estimate children al lot. Children pick up things very quickly by watching and listening to adults. So at 6 months, telling him no and telling him what he is not to do and mess with is best. He is a bit young for spankings.

But all children at one point or another need discipline which sometimes involves spankings. While he is still small, it doesn't need to be anything that will hurt, but you have to start early with discipline or your children may be out of control and by the time you decide to discipline them, it may be too late.

Also discuss with his grandma that you don't spank him and that you like for her not to spank him either.

Answer 4

No its not ok to spank or hit a 6mth old baby, babies brains at that age do not understand right from wrong..so the better idea would be teaching him words like u said "NO" etc..i have a 3yr old son and a 11mth old son and what i done with them is use the words "NO" like if they went to touch something that they were not allowed to touch i would say "no" in a normal voice then if they tried again and again i just got a little louder with my tone..it worked and i have never had to spank or hit any of my children.

I hope this helps and good luck.

Answer 5

After telling her that a 6 month previous is way too youthful for such self-discipline, i'd have requested what punishment she felt her sick mannered toddler deserved for persistently taking a touch one's toys away! in my opinion, i doesn't go away Gracie with her to visual show unit. My mom made comments about my son needing more suitable self-discipline and that i got here across out that the purely appropriate time she watched him she had spanked him. i become nuclear. no human being has a appropriate to position a hand on my toddler. she gained't watch my children back and they gained't be spending the nighttime at her homestead.

Answer 6

Hell no i have 5 kids under the age of 9 and my youngest is 2 and he doesn't understand a whole lot so i couldn't imagine that a 6 month old would know what he can or can not touch. I would tell his grandma if she cant remember how much a 6 month old knows then she is not alowed to see your baby anymore. She has no rite to touch your baby taht is your job to teach him right from wrong, not hers. Good luck i had the same problem with my mother in-law.....

Answer 7

You can't spank a 6 month old, they don't have an understanding of what it means.
You simply need to distract him/her from what they are doing, and that's not hard to do with a 6 month old, or tell them 'you are doing the wrong thing'
You can't remove things in your home to avoid your child touching/breaking them, you need to teach them just not to touch or when your kid goes to some one Else's house they will think that whatever IS IN THEIR REACH is ALLOWED to be touched, and you won't be able to go anywhere!
Tell your son's grandma that he's your child and you don't approve of what she's doing, you need to teach him the right things to do, not just give him a spank. -spanking I think is OK, but your child needs to be old enough to understand why and to be given an explanation-

Answer 8

No way. You need to take a parenting class. Stop allowing other people to discipline your child. You have to make some serious decisions since you are so young - are you the mommy or not?

Tell him NO. Put up baby gates to keep him away from things not intended for baby. And if Grandma's house is full of temptations for your little man, maybe grandma's house isn't the place for him. If your house is babyproofed and baby friendly maybe Granda should come to your house instead.

When my kids got into things they shouldn't, I said NO and took them to another area where we had toys for them to play with. Every one of them got the message. Every single one of them were raised without ever being hit, slapped, or spanked. THAT is an adult temper tantrum, not effective discipline.

Answer 9

I think that 6 months is a little early for a spanking. The no no method sounds like a good one and also the finger pop worked good for my god son. Spaking at 6 months seems a little extreme to me.

Answer 10

no. He needs to know the meaning of the word no first. Then when he comprehends this and your say no doesn't work a tap on the hand is ok. Not hard. A tap is enough to reinforce No means don't touch. He is your baby and your job as the parent is to protect him. Explain if she smacks him again he will no longer be bought there. At 6 months you remove temptation from his way. He is too young to understand not to touch

Answer 11

say no but don't spank a 6 month old. A baby does not know any better so why would you spank him? That is what 6 month old do is get into everything. You have no right to spank him when he is only a baby