Juvenile Crimes

Cruel children?
These words don’t look good together…but in our modern world they do come together, as in juvenile crimes!! There have been many incidents recently in the media like school campus shooting, drug abuse, both in India and in other countries. In all the incidents adolescents were involved but it was clearly a case of uncontrolled anger manifesting as crime. Can we identify these kids at an earlier age? Can this anger be channelized into something else? Child psychiatrists surely know how to identify and deal with such kids but normally parents don’t take unruly kids for counseling. They take a strict measure at home, which only worsens child’s state of mind. Anger keeps simmering at subconscious level and finally manifests as a serious crime at a later stage of life.
Go to primary section of any school and interact with the parents and they’ll tell many tales of bully kids. Bully kids beat up class mates, they bite, scratch, even kick and use bad abusive language. They imitate super human cartoon characters and try to assert their strength in a world where they are taken for granted and forever reprimanded by teachers and parents and most elders. They invent enemies within friends and can be cruel with soft kids for almost no reason at all. This behavior doesn’t need punishment. Patient parenting can do wonders. It is easy to manipulate young minds. In most instances closer look at these vulnerable minds reveal many problem areas. Most often they have difficulty in coping and sharing with their peers at school or outside school. They may have learning difficulty. Or they simply emulate from what they see in television and media. Identifying their weakness is very important. Anger takes birth from frustration. Only weak make extra effort to assert their strength. Telling them physical strength alone doesn’t make a person winner or loser may work. Being selective about what channels they surf and introducing music, dance or art as a hobby can channelize negative emotions. Nipping anger at a budding stage is essential.

Dyslexia

My toddler son did show some symptoms of dyslexia but he understands the problem very clearly and is doing very well for himself...the other day he came running to me after school exams and said,''I have written all 'd's and 'b' s correctly, didn't mix up!"
The kids have amazing mechanism of coping up and their brains rewire almost instantly if explained properly.