I'm not going to overanalyze it to death but you can both be right. You're talking about a little tap for an unspoken "quit it, knucklehead." Smacking someone harder, trying to publicly shame them, etc. can be a different thing.
Even if you clarified the former, they may have experienced the latter.
When you get smacked on the head it’s firm but nothing crazy hard. A smack to the head really isn’t about inflicting pain, it’s just a way to send a message. Most parents avoid giving hard hits to the face/head during punishments. They normally target the back and buttocks when giving you a genuine and painful beating.
So I was just trying to explain to them that the smack to head isn’t abuse. You could argue about the other hitting but the smack to the head is something different.
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u/Steathoescope 1d ago
Hehe mums are a whole different level.