Having a baby almost 18 months old (picture above) I often wonder about that question; why this kid gets so angry all the sudden? Sometimes we are playing happy together, and then all the sudden because I don’t do something he wants me to do, he gets angry and starts screaming at me. I tell him that is not right, he shouldn’t scream at me, and if next time he yells at me that way, I will spank him. Guess what? He does it the next moment, and the spank gets an extension for the next time. I know he does it by pure instinct; he is too young to understand certain things, but that behavior in him makes me wonder.

According to an article on Scientific American magazine, the reason why kids smack their playmates, or violently grab their toys, is lack of social skills says Richard Tremblay, a professor of pediatrics, psychiatry, and psychology at the University of Montreal, who has spent more than two decades tracking 35,000 Canadian children, from age 5 months to their 20s.

Mr. Tremblay’s previous results have suggested that children on average reach a peak of violent behavior (biting, scratching, screaming hitting) around 18 months old age. The level of aggression begins to taper between the ages of two and five as they begin to learn other, more sophisticated ways of communicating their needs and wants.

If you have children in the ages between 5 months and five years old please share your experiences about their behavior by commenting here.

Read the article at scientific American here

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