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Parenting: Crossing the Line from Roughhousing to Violent Child Behavior
By Anthony Kane, Md
Let’s discuss how to differentiate between violent child behavior and when a child is simply playing rough. This can be hard to do in cases where children seem to go wild. This is all the more so in the case of boys, who are naturally inclined to playing rough. Mock fighting, roughhousing, and other activities deemed violent, can be seen quite often. Playing rough and being violent are quite different, but how do you tell? Basically, you should simply follow what your parenting instincts tell you. If you feel that your child is getting overly aggressive and things seem to get out of your hands, your child has probably crossed the roughhousing stage and stepped into the ‘being violent’ category. A simple indication is when one child wants to stop (play) fighting but the other carries on. This situation calls for outside intervention in order to be broken up. While roughhousing can pass off as being acceptable, violent child behavior should not be allowed to pass. Violence, as your child grows older, will progress, and can hamper your child’s future. Again, in differentiating between roughhousing and being violent, your instincts are your best guide. As a parent, you should know that a child is exposed to violence all the time; through movies, through video games, through the television (even the cartoons he watches), etc. This increases the levels of tolerant violent behavior. What one parent could look upon as roughhousing, another might find to be positively violent. If you are not sure if your kid is crossing the line from playing rough to violent child behavior, these are good indications to consider:
• Your common sense parenting instincts telling you so
• Instances when one of two children play-fighting wants to stop, but the other won’t stop. At this point, parent intervention is advised, and you should also think about getting child behavior help if your child does this on a regular basis. |
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