This is a facilitated discussion that will address the issue of aggressive
and antisocial behaviour in children.

We may consider…

• When does healthy assertiveness become aggression?
• When does self containment become repression?
• When does exuberance become the inability to focus?
• What to do if your child is having social difficulties.
• The child who resists transitions.
• The child who is unaware of transitions.
• You can’t say you can’t play. Bullying, teasing and how to age appropriately break the pattern.
• The emergence of the temperaments. How to recognize and help…
• The nervous child
• The dominant child
• The stubborn child
• The unfocussed child
• The influences of media.
• The influences of diet.
• The balance between healthy involvement and over scheduling.
• Helpful responses when a child speaks of a problem.
• Developing parent teacher partnerships.
• Family life and its role in developing healthy social relationships.
• A counter balance to aggression. Fostering healthy sense of…
• Well being, wonder and awe.
• Appropriateness and equilibrium
• Where “my space ends and the other child’s begins.”
• Trust, and the acceptance of boundaries.
• Boys at school, home and play.
• An encounter with the Self. The nine-year-old transition.