Ok handmadedogsweaters - you're bitey toddler is now 12 and nicking stuff fro shops, hanging around the older kids who shoplift, deal drugs and rob houses. Do you replicate that behaviour as a means of teaching them not to do it? Before you tell me that slapping, hitting and shouting will stop the toddler becoming a shop lifter, burglar, car thief, drug dealer - it won't, it absolutely won't. The adolescents who follow that path have often received the kind of parenting you advice. Not all of them, some ok parents like most of us here can find ourselves confronted with an out of control adolescent but violence is never, ever the answer.
