The incident that led to Peterson using the switch on his four-year-old son was that the son wanted the video game controller and had pushed another boy out of the way to get it.
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Really? A child displays normal behavior and that leads the parent to whip the child?
Nice parenting skills.
Stand by what I said previously...adults should not be whipping 4 year old children w/ switches...or any other item that would leave open sores and bruising.
Seriously. Of course, we don’t know how many times the child was warned, or how many times this had happened, or how rough the child was in pushing the other child away.