How To Deal With Angry Kids: 6 Ways Parents Can Provoke Anger In Their Children

Just like adults, children can become angry, resentful and discouraged in life if they experience being mistreated. In some cases, anger stem from the way guardians and parents treat their kids.

Hence, all parents must be careful how they treat their children, so their kids won't stray into the wrong path, according to Bible Reasons. To help parents avoid from falling to parenting pitfalls, Mark Altrogge, a pastor, shared to For Every Mom some of the things that can provoke children to anger. Here are some of it:

1. Parents can provoke kids by constantly criticizing them. Likewise, by not giving children positive feedbacks that can encourage them to work harder. Altrogge said criticizing and not encouraging children can only make them feel "they can never please" their parents enough.

2. Parents not showing enough affection to children can also infuriate them. Children can also become rebellious if parents keep on telling them or demanding what they should do (e.g., Do it because I said so).

3. Parents comparing kids to other people can also provoke them. Furthermore, Altrogge said one of the contributing factors is showing ungracious reactions to the child's sin (e.g., Why in the world would you do such thing?).

4. Parents embarrassing children in front of the other people can greatly affect them. Altrogge said it's not right to mock or correct kids in front of other people.

5. Kids can grow angry and bitter if their parents are always lecturing and yelling at them. Moreover, if parents refuse to listen to any of their children's reasons or what they are trying to say.

6. Forgetting that no one is perfect and everyone is sinners, so as your child too. Hence, parents end up saying bad things to their children like "I would NEVER have done that when I was your age."

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