 "Anger in children. Photos: iStock")
If you poke a two-year-old, he will on reflex take a swing at you. But the blow coming from a child who is two isn’t considered bad behaviour. Cute, perhaps. Human beings are hard-wired to be angry, and children at that stage are only being themselves — children who are still to learn the social cues that make them more self-controlled.
But what happens when an 11-year-old kicks and screams because his parents have failed to serve him his favourite pizza for dinner? Or when a 12-year-old abuses his mother because she has refused to buy him the latest iPhone?
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