No matter what age your child is, it is always important to know who they are hanging out with. Even kids as young as elementary school age can influence your child’s behavior.
Just this weekend, my husband and I decided that our 8 year old son was not allowed to play with a particular boy anymore. We have been debating this for awhile. It was a tough decision because the boy lives in our neighborhood.
We have noticed a pattern of lies and other traits that we just don’t like. His actions always seem to disrupt the other kids who were playing just fine until he joins the group. Our son always seems to have a bad attitude after he has been playing with him. We are putting an end to this bad influence.
"If you’ve ever watched a group of elementary school kids interact, you can quickly see there’s usually a "problem child," one whose behaviors are aggressive or disruptive for peers and teachers. For years, researchers have known that these "antisocial" children are often rejected by their peers. But now a new study published in the November/December issue of the journal Child Development finds that as these antisocial children move into adolescence, they begin to form alliances with other antisocial kids, increasing the chance they’ll participate in risky behavior in their teenaged years."
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