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Learning and development: Aggression - hitting out
Nursery World,
2 January 2008
Children's physical responses to the frustration and anger they may feel are often misunderstood, and labelling them is counter-productive, says Karen Faux.
When, last October, an eminent paediatric professor delivered a lecture which emphasised the importance to society of curbing anti-social behaviour in the very young, the national press had a field day. Three- and four-year-olds were branded as being 'more violent than adults' and a war on 'terror tots' was declared. But as some childcare experts have subsequently pointed out, this seems to be missing the point. What Professor Richard Tremblay, professor of Paediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychology at Montreal...
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