Yelling at Kids Can Impact Their Emotional and Physical Health

Children are innocent and immature. They don’t understand the frustration or irritation of their parents when they don’t listen to them. But they do get scared when their parents yell at them. Yelling impacts not only their short term behavior but also has lasting effects on mental development and personality and also mental and emotional health.

Some of the impacts of yelling on the emotional health and physical health of kids are:

1. Aggravates their behavioral problems
   Some kids have behavioral problems and yelling by parents might result in the kid’s behaving well at that time. But in the long run, the behavioral issue will increase with constant prevalence of the issue. The kids will get used to yelling and as time passes he/she may develop more issues along with the current one.

2. Changes their brain development
   A kid’s brain is still developing, so any negative incident or event changes how their brain develops. Yelling makes them scared and it changes the development of their brain.
   
3. Leads to depression or anxiety in kids
   Kids are naughty by nature and tend to do a lot of things that frustrate the parents. So yelling at a toddler makes them hurt and scared of their parents. This leads to depression or anxiety.

4. Physical health of the kid
   Childhood events shape our entire life, so the unpleasant yelling causes stress in kids. Stress impacts the physical health of the child and may result in physical health issues.
   
5. Chronic pain in kids
   Negative childhood events or experiences result in the development of chronic pains in the kid. The kid may develop chronic pains such as back or neck pains, arthritis, and headaches.

6. Low self-confidence in kids
   Yelling by parents even at the smallest of the things makes the kid believe they are not good enough. Repeated yelling by their parents’ results in their self-confidence going down and in the long term can result in them feeling inadequate or not good enough.
   
7. Aggression in kids
   Some kids behave rebelliously due to constant yelling by their parents. After some time, this need to defy their parents turns to aggression and becomes a part of their personality.

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