Parenting tips: How you can stop your child from becoming violent

If your child is displaying violent or destructive behaviour, don’t take it lightly. Research say kids who are violent at age five, six, and seven have higher risk of becoming violent as teens and young adults. Many factors can contribute to violence in children. It can be childhood events such as abuse, neglect, trauma, loss or abandonment. Often kids use violence to get what they want.  o how can we prevent children from becoming violent.

Does your child have a tendency of showing aggressive behaviour such as kicking, biting, or hitting? If yes, you can help him express his feelings in appropriate ways. Here are some ways to do that:

Let your child know that many people care for him 
Researchers say kids need a minimum of five caring adults to help them grow up happy and healthy. Besides parents, many other people like grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers, family friends can influence a kid’s behaviour. These people can serve as positive role models to a kid and stop him from becoming violent.

Reprimand if he shows aggressive behaviour
Set firm rules so that your kid gets to know what is right and wrong. Make sure everyone in the family is aware of the rules you set, and the consequences if he does exhibit this behaviour. Reprimand your child immediately if he kicks, hits, or bites. This will make him understand what he’s done is wrong and won’t repeat it.

Avoid Harsh Punishment
Be careful when you discipline your child. Never punish a child harshly. If you’re violent, abusive or insensitive to our children, you’re indirectly teaching them to be unsympathetic and out of control. Let you child know that what you’re saying because you care for him and because you want him to be a better person.

Help your child deal with anger in a positive way

Talk to him to know his feeling and what has caused him to become so angry. Then encourage him to use words to express her feelings rather than hitting at others or throwing tantrums. This can help you kid work through the anger and calm down. Praise your little one if you notice him dealing with his anger in a positive way.

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Soft drinks tied to increased aggression in kids: Study

Heavy soft drink consumption is associated with aggression, attention problems and withdrawal behaviour in young children, a new study has found.

The study  assessed approximately 3,000 5-year-old children.

The kids were enrolled in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a prospective birth cohort that follows mother-child pairs.

Mothers reported their child's soft drink consumption and completed the Child Behaviour Checklist based on their child's behaviour during the previous two months.

The researchers found that 43 per cent of the children consumed at least 1 serving of soft drinks per day, and 4 per cent consumed 4 or more.

Aggression, withdrawal, and attention problems were associated with soda consumption. Even after adjusting for sociodemographic factors, maternal depression, intimate partner violence, and paternal incarceration, any soft drink consumption was linked to increased aggressive behaviour.

Children who drank 4 or more soft drinks per day were more than twice as likely to destroy things belonging to others, get into fights, and physically attack people.

They also had increased attention problems and withdrawal behaviour compared with those who did not consume soft drinks.

"We found that the child's aggressive behaviour score increased with every increase in soft drinks servings per day," said a researcher.

Although this study cannot identify the exact nature of the association between soft drink consumption and problem behaviours, limiting or eliminating a child's soft drink consumption may reduce behavioural problems, researchers said.

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Spare the rod

Research shows that kids who are spanked or hit have lower IQs, they shut down their learning powers. They're also more aggressive  particularly boys & get into more trouble than kids who are not spanked. Such children also have sexual problems & low self-esteem as adults.

So, how to manage such a child?

Understand what is going on. Children act out when they don't have words to express their frustration & anger. Teach your child to express his thoughts & feelings, you can put words in his mouth. e.g., "I know that you're tired & wish we could go home, but we can't,as we've to finish our grocery shopping, or doctor's appointment etc". This shows him what he could say to make you understand his feelings. It doesn't always work, but it is important to offer that help so he can learn impulse control & to use words in place of actions Whenever you feel like spanking the child, take a deep breath & count to 10. You're the grown-up & should be able to come up with an expressive & thoughtful alternative to hitting.

Loud Sound Leads to Health Problems

Continued and prolonged exposure to loud sounds has been known to elevate stress levels and indirectly contribute to altered blood pressure levels, diabetes and increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. These problems aggravate as one grows older and puts increased stress on the individual, doctors have pointed out.


Chronic exposure to noise has a physiological and psychological effect on an individual. If the physiological effect could be anything from decreased hearing ability to increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, psychologically, exposure to unwanted, loud sounds over days can lead to irritation, annoyance and aggressive behaviour, affecting one's personality.

Hearing loss

It is said that noise-induced hearing loss and progressive loss of hearing ability because of constant exposure to loud sounds were much more common than one would like to believe. Elevated stress levels due to loud sounds would affect one's sleep, decrease concentration or attention levels and would affect one's productivity and performance at workplace.

Sound sleep is crucial to one's health and well being. It energises and recharges the individual and is essential for one's physical and mental health. Sleep deprivation can result in chronic fatigue, headaches and affect workplace behaviour

Sleep deprivation

Problems of sleep deprivation and heightened stress levels were becoming increasingly common in many households during the festival seasons, when huge sound boxes blared from all directions. More awareness should be created of the health problems caused by noise pollution among the public so that people were forced to follow the regulations regarding decibel levels, especially during the night hours.