Children need to achieve a balance between emotional expression and control. Several vignettes offer ideas about understanding aggression and anger. Focus informs the reader that childhood aggression is often predictive of low academic achievement school dropout, juvenile delinquency, and adult criminality. Role playing and a variety of training methods were used. Finally, emotional development is influenced by self-reference.
Self esteem is how positively or negatively children measure themselves.
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