Is Your Child Manipulative or Aggressive? Knowing When to Seek Help
Posted: Thursday, August 05, 2010
by Judy H. Wright
Artichoke Press
Does your child manipulate others for favors, and never make an effort to reciprocate? Do they have a lack of concern for the feelings and well-being of others. Do they fight, steal, vandalize or set fires?
What do you do when you have tried every parenting technique in the books? Where do you turn when you can no longer communicate with your child. When tough love and co-opeartion are not enough to turn a rotten attitude or disrespectful behavior around.
Knowing when to ask for professional help is a almost as important as recognizing the behavior itself.
So, you've read all the books, you have tried different parenting techniques. You have set boundaries that are consistently broken, then perhaps its time to get some professional assistance.
Some key signs to watch for in a child are an almost total lack of friends or associates. However, this sign may also be a matter of circumstances or personality. While completing research for a recent book on making friends, I found many children go through periods of loneliness or a specific social skill may not have been developed yet, so this trigger may not always be present.
Aggressive or bullying behaviors may occur in conjunction with other symptoms including drug or alcohol abuse or aggitation along with depression. The biggest red flag is a lack of remores or guilt when caught.
Are you concerned about your child physically bullying others, have you ever considered that the child may also be cyber-bullying others online. Cyber-bullying has become a major concern for schools, churches, and other youth organzations. With all the technology that surrounds us there are many ways to cyber-bully. Using cell phones is one of the many ways youth communicate, and has become one of the tools children use to bully others. (For more ways to gain insight into how to monitor cell phone use go to htt://bit.ly/cellphonesecrets.)
Unless meaningful intervention occurs many adolescents who have anger and aggression problems will have poor social skills and will have difficulty in the workplace and will interpersonal relationships throughout their lifetime. Some even end up spending time in prison.
Parents need to recognize behaviors and seek professional help as needed. Seek out a therapist who has experince in dealing with anger and intimidation issues, and is recommended by others you trust.
Early intervention can mean help, not only for the aggressive child, but for the children he or she may be targeting with their malice or anger. Getting help early is a important and can often mean and faster and more effictive recovery.
For more information please refer to the links below.
http://www.UseEncouragingWords.com A free ebook that will assist you in motivating positive action in all communications (reword)
http://www.kidschoresandmore.com developing responsible and respectful children into self sufficient adults
http://www.theleftoutchild.com importance of friendship
http://www.welcomeabundance.com how our family has found ways of increasing our income and decreasing our outgo
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