Hi, need to submit a 1250 words essay on the topic Aggression In Children.

First of all, it is impossible to consider children’s aggression without defining the exact symptoms and manifestations of it. Aggression is a hostile, destructive or even injurious behavior of an individual. the inner condition is mostly caused by deep hidden frustration suppressed by a person (Anderson & Bushman 2002). The general notion of aggression contains multiple implementations of the behavioral condition, especially concerning children, as their manifestations of aggression get changed with age and gain new social forms.

The infants’ aggression doesn’t have multiple forms and mostly is implemented in crying and loud hysterics. When infant children are not happy about satisfaction of their basic needs like food, hygiene, and parents’ attention, they start behaving hysterically until their needs are satisfied. According to pediatric psychologists’ studies conducted by Balleyguier and Melhuish (1996), such kind of aggression later transforms into toddlers’ aggression engaged with toys and first steps in communication with society apart from family environment. Hence, when children get into kindergarten they may start acting mean and strive to offend other children. First of all, it concerns their greed to share their toys with other children. also, they try to segregate their territory and may use physical force in the order not to let anyone into their personal space.

The next stage of children aggression begins to appear in preschoolers who are extremely self-centered personalities with quite low level of empathy. This means that children of the age between 2 to 5 years don’t understand feelings of other people and experience troubles in putting themselves in others’ shoes. This feature literally makes them uncontrollable, as they can’t realize what they are punished for after they have done something aggressive. Thus when a mother punishes an aggressive child, applying