An Aggressive Child is a Scared Child
Sep 3rd 2009 · by admin
Can you see this angry child as a scared child? Image by foamcow via Flickr. Today in our online parenting class that started last month we completed Session 7 in the course which deals with Chapter 9 in Beyond Consequences, Logic & Control Volume 1 on Aggression. Our goals for today’s session were:
- To help participants identify anger as fear. An aggressive child is a scared child.
- To help parents understand that aggression is a survival behavior, triggered when feeling threatened.
- Equip parents to identify their own fear reactions when their child is aggressive.
- Teach techniques that can be used to create safety and decrease the creation of more fear and stress.
- Help them realize that aggression is not a personal attack against them. Help them shift their belief that their child is rejecting them.
- Help them understand that the core drive of aggressive behavior is not control, it is protection. [Read more →]
