Just to make all those who are posting aware: suggestions of hitting/pinching/biting your child (or any variations of that) to teach them not to hit goes against the ethos of gentle parenting.

It is therefore not appropriate to suggest these methods of discipline to a poster who has posted in the gentle parenting section looking for advice. I appreciate that in some cases, this may have been done with tongue in cheek, but that doesn't always translate over the internet, and you need to be aware that a new mum may be reading and taking it seriously.

If anyone has any issue with this, please feel free to PM me.