The Lesson One Foundation's Skills for Life program is helping young kids to deal with the emotions and impulses behind violence before antisocial behavior gets out of control. With Skills for Life, kids are being taught basic life skills like self-control in an innovative and fun way. Find out how Skills for Life is putting real-world coping strategies in the classroom along with the ABC's. These questions included evidence that the students were taking more responsibility for their actions, acting more respectful and controlled in their classrooms, and learning more self-confidence. The numbers of reported incidents per 1,000 students were similar for middle school and high schools for both serious violent and nonviolent crimes.
Aggressive habits tend to be learned early.
By the time a child reaches second grade, the pattern for violence is often set. Once set, patterns of aggression can turn into a lifelong pattern of dysfunction. An aggressive child is far more likely to become an aggressive adult. In Massachusetts the number of reported juvenile violent crime arrests in 1996 was 2,597. Related Coverage Cloud, John.