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Is your anger affecting your child’s behavior?

Your anger may be affecting your child’s emotional and relational health, creating needs for your
child that’s causing challenging behavior.

Here are some behaviors that might indicate the child is being impacted by your anger.

● Your child is afraid to try new things and he/she is very sensitive to criticism when challenged.

● Your child is verbally or physically abusive with a younger sibling who flies into angry rages in
which he or she tries to hurt a younger child or sibling.

● Your child seems depressed, lethargic or less interested in age-appropriate activities.

● Your child starts to avoid you or resists spending time or sharing things with you.

● Your child’s behavior changes at school.

● Your child displays low self-esteem, like putting people down, being dissatisfied with his or her
performance/behavior or just having a generally more negative attitude.

● Your child shows little empathy when seeing other people hurt or sad.

These behaviors may not be directly connected to the way you express your anger toward your
child, but surely indicate both emotional and relational health needs.

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