Parenting

Childhood behaviour problems can become life long

By memiah, writer at Life Coach Directory

Published on January 9th, 2009

Bad behaviour patterns in childhood can result to bigger problems later in life, reports The Telegraph.

About 7% of nine to 15 year olds are affected by serious behavioural problems during their time at school. A study, charted 3,500 British people at two stages of their life – when they were 13-15 and between 36-53, comparing their behaviour in their school years to their current life situation.

Dr Ian Colman, from the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health in Canada, said: “Adolescents who engaged in (disruptive) behaviour had poorer mental health, less successful family lives, and poorer social and economic outcomes in adulthood.”