Daycare
Why a Child May Act Aggressively at Daycare: Age-Related Causes (US)
Few sentences turn a parent's stomach faster than "your child bit another child today." It is normal to spiral: is something wrong, is this who they a...
4 min read
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Daycare
Why a Child May Act Aggressively at Daycare: Age-Related Causes (UK)
Few sentences turn a parent's stomach faster than "your child bit another child today." It is normal to spiral: is something wrong, is this who they a...
4 min read
Daycare
Why a Child May Act Aggressively at Daycare: Age-Related Causes (Global)
Few sentences turn a parent's stomach faster than "your child bit another child today." It is normal to spiral: is something wrong, is this who they a...
4 min read
Daycare
Age-Related Reasons for Aggressive Behavior in Groups (US)
Hitting, biting, pushing, snatching — physical aggression is one of the most common worries parents bring up at daycare pickup. Whether your child was...
3 min read
Daycare
Age-Related Reasons for Aggressive Behavior in Groups (UK)
Hitting, biting, pushing, snatching — physical aggression is one of the most common worries parents bring up at nursery pickup. Whether your child was...
3 min read
Daycare
Age-Related Reasons for Aggressive Behavior in Groups (Global)
Hitting, biting, pushing, snatching — physical aggression is one of the most common worries parents bring up at daycare pickup. Whether your child was...
3 min read
Parenting
Hitting and Kicking: Understanding the Developmental Context
Your toddler hits when they don't get their way. Your preschooler kicks during an argument with a peer. Your child strikes out when frustrated or over...
6 min read
Parenting
Biting in Toddlers: Causes and Responses
The first time your toddler bites someone, it's a punch to the gut. The second time, it's panic — what if she keeps doing this? The boring news is tha...
8 min read
Parenting
When Aggression in a Young Child Needs Professional Assessment
The hard part isn't knowing that your toddler hits. The hard part is knowing whether the hitting is on the typical trajectory of declining aggression...
12 min read
Parenting
How to Handle Aggressive Behaviour in Young Children
The under-5 hitting their sibling, biting their friend at nursery, kicking the parent in the supermarket: the behaviour is alarming, often embarrassin...
11 min read
Emotions
Aggression in Toddlers: Developmental Norm or Warning Sign
The toddler who hits their parent, bites a playmate, or pushes another child off a toy is not demonstrating early antisocial tendencies. They are demo...
3 min read
Daycare
Why a Child May Act Aggressively at Daycare: Age-Related Causes
Few sentences turn a parent's stomach faster than "your child bit another child today." It is normal to spiral: is something wrong, is this who they a...
4 min read
Daycare
Age-Related Reasons for Aggressive Behavior in Groups
Hitting, biting, pushing, snatching — physical aggression is one of the most common worries parents bring up at nursery pickup. Whether your child was...
3 min read
Daycare
Why a Child May Act Aggressively Toward Others
The phone call from daycare — your child hit, bit, or pushed another kid — is one of the more uncomfortable moments of toddler parenthood. It almost n...
7 min read
Daycare
How to Recognize That a Child Is Experiencing Bullying
A preschooler who is being targeted by a peer almost never names it. They do not have the language, and often do not have the framing. What you will s...
6 min read
Daycare
Why a Child May Be Bullied at Daycare
Most peer trouble at daycare is ordinary conflict, not bullying. But true bullying — one child repeatedly targeting another, week after week — does ha...
6 min read
Emotions
Hitting and Biting in Toddlers: Why It Happens and How to Respond
The phone call from nursery — "she bit another child today" — is one of the more dreaded moments of early parenthood. The shame is instant, the worry...
6 min read
Emotions
Biting, Hitting, and Aggressive Behaviour in Toddlers: What Drives It and How to Respond
Discovering that your child has bitten another child at nursery, or that your toddler has hit an older sibling, is embarrassing, alarming, and stressf...
4 min read
Emotions
Toddler Aggression: Biting, Hitting, and What It Means Developmentally
Few toddler behaviours cause more parental distress than biting or hitting — partly because of the harm caused to others, partly because of the embarr...
3 min read