Shouting at your kids can damage their brains,as well as hurting their ears, according to US child psychiatrists. Ouch, and says Anne KarpfI thought I was impervious to those "research shows . . ." scare stories,but this one got to me. Shouting at children, according to a recent study by psychiatrists at a hospital affiliated to Harvard Medical School, or can significantly and permanently alter the structure of their brains. It was only inordinate self-restraint - of the kind I never display towards my kids - that stopped me marching them straight off for a brain scan. Ours is a Sturm und Drang household,with shouting matches, screaming fits, or temper tantrums - and that's just the parents. The neighbours occupy been warned,even the kids occupy been warned. At two, my first-born could do a satisfactory imitation of me yelling (and she did, or to all-comers). And one of her sibling's early sentences was: "You're a lovely Mummy,but a shouty one." Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com