Child Discipline vs. Child Abuse Simply put this is a paper describing when child discipline becomes child abuse.

You see your child misbehaving, and you tell him to stop. He ignores you, and you tell him again. You are getting frustrated. He says "OK, I will", then 10 minutes later the same thing is going on. You're really angry now. It feels like your authority as a parent means nothing. If other adults are around then it's even worse, you feel ineffective and inadequate. So you yell, "I TOLD YOU TO STOP THAT RIGHT …

…not be tolerated. This is abuse. *Physical punishment should never involve a slap or blow to the head. This would also be abuse. *Physical punishment which causes injury (intended or unintended injury) is child abuse. None of the experts goes so far as to recommend spanking, or other forms of physical punishment, as a form of child discipline. However, most of the social science witnesses and professionals have agreed that spanking is not child abuse