In most cases, children exhibit aggressive behavior early in life, and if not provided support, will continue a progressive developmental pattern toward severe aggression or violence. It goes on to list a number of warning signs. Take a kid who beats up another for scuffing his shiny new shoes while walking by, or maybe for making a comment he didn't like, Rowles said. When you see your value in the shiny coat of a shoe, that's a pretty shallow value. Americans spend way too much time worrying about motivation and not enough time on consequences, Rowles said.
Bad behavior requires consequences regardless of motivation.
Boomers are filled with anxiety about freedom, but not the traditional freedoms that made this country strong. But just as Freud suggested, anxiety is a knock at the door, alerting us to the fact that something is awry. Too much freedom and self-indulgence was, in the past, followed by an appropriate sense of guilt. But in an age when God is dead, guilt is a politically incorrect notion that remains unexpressed in its essence, and experienced only in its vagueness as anxiety. Dr. Benjamin Spock convinced several generations of parents to indulge their children, to allow them to grow without boundaries or punishment and to believe that childrearing is an intelectual challenge rather than a matter of common sense.