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636. Anxiety or Aggression? When Anxiety in Children Looks Like Anger, Tantrums, or Meltdowns -- from Hey Sigmund.

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This very interesting article helps you and your child learn to handle anxiety.   Many good suggestions and solutions to develop self control!  Anxiety or Aggression? When Anxiety in Children Looks Like Anger, Tantrums, or Meltdowns Posted by Hey Sigmund Anxiety can be a masterful imposter. In children, it can sway away from the more typical avoidant, clingy behaviour and show itself as tantrums, meltdowns and aggression. As if anxiety wasn’t hard enough to deal with! When children are under the influence of an anxious brain, their behaviour has nothing to do with wanting to push against the limits. They are often great kids who don’t want to do the wrong thing, but they are being driven by a brain in high alert. If we could see what was happening in their heads when anxiety takes hold like this, their behaviour would make sense. We would want to scoop the