All children (like all people) can be verbally and physically aggressive. All children (like all people) are more likely to act aggressively when frustrated. Neuro-developmentally atypical children ...

Research scientists say kids who are persistently aggressive or defiant in their teens were likely showing signs of persistent aggressive behavior years earlier when they are toddlers. Sometimes as a ...

Roughly every month I receive an e-mail from a parent somewhere in the world asking for help with a child who is violent, angry or aggressive. Some people describe being physically beaten or having ...

At least 1 in 20 families struggles with an aggressive child. Such children and their families need and should be offered evidence-based treatments. When these families get ineffective therapies—or no ...

The call from school is specific and urgent: your five-year-old hit a classmate during circle time, or bit another child on ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has found an association between ultra-processed foods in early childhood and behavioural and ...

Erinn Acland has previously received funding from the Quebec Network on Suicide, Mood Disorders and Related Disorders, NSERC, and the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain. Joanna Peplak ...

Preschool children who eat more ultra-processed foods show higher levels of anxiety, aggression, and behavioral difficulties.

At least half of all autistic children experience some form of aggression, such as hitting, kicking or name-calling, while their parents are tasked with helping them cope and integrate socially. Yet ...

Tayo is a 13-year-old JSS 3 student who has always been very aggressive since early childhood. He would kick, punch and bite anyone that refused to allow him to have his way. Very easily, other ...