In fact, during early childhood, children's thoughts are mainly centered around themselves, believing that others must accommodate their behavior, otherwise they will show corresponding attacks. Especially for children in kindergarten, their aggressive behavior is more evident. Next, let's learn about the characteristics of children's aggressive behavior together.
Characteristics of children's aggressive behavior
1. Young children exhibit frequent aggressive behavior. Mainly manifested as direct competition or destruction of toys or other items in order to compete for them. In addition, narrow activity spaces and insufficient game materials are also important factors that cause aggressive behavior in young children.
2. Children rely more on physical attacks rather than verbal attacks. For example, once the toy they want to play with is taken away by someone else, they immediately develop hostility and use grabbing, hitting, and biting to snatch the toy, rather than attacking the other person with words.
3. There are significant gender differences in aggressive behavior among young children. Studies have shown that aggressive behavior tendencies are related to levels of male hormones, so boys usually have more aggressive behavior than girls, which is caused by physiological factors.
The harm of aggressive behavior in young children
The aggressive behavior of young children not only poses a threat to others or the collective, but also hinders their individual health development and impedes their social, personality, and cognitive development. Numerous studies have shown that children with aggressive behavior generally have poorer peer relationships. Most children of the same age tend to avoid it. In small classes, due to the influence of some children with strong aggressive behavior, the children who are bullied by them often develop psychological fear and even refuse to go to kindergarten. Make it difficult for teachers to handle the work of parents.
In fact, although children may unconsciously exhibit aggressive behavior, this is a very normal phenomenon because when they were young, it was mostly their parents or adults around them who catered to their wishes. And what parents need to do is to guide their children to recognize aggressive behavior correctly and let them know that aggression is not good.
