If your child hits or bites other children – what is the reason and what can parents do about it? Pediatrician Dr. med. Nadine McGowan explains how to best deal with behavioral problems in children.
That’s what the pediatrician Dr. med. Nadine McGowan:
No aggressive behavior is practiced in the family, on the contrary – one tries to educate the children to be empathetic, helpful and friendly people. So how does it happen when a child shows aggressive behavior out of the blue? First of all, it is important to know that children only begin to understand the consequences of their behavior for others. For example, empathy in the real sense only begins to develop at the age of 18 months. From this point on, the child can differentiate between "self" and "other". Until then, for example, it will start to cry because another child is crying. But this is not because it reacts empathically, but because it cannot distinguish between external and self-perception.