When a child faces neglect and rejection from his parents, he goes into a shell and to get his due iota of attention, he starts behaving badly. He goes into bad company and subsequently, every aspect of his life from family, education to social life gets adversely affected. Even as adults when we see no concern from our close ones, we feel so neglected and hurt. Imagine, if this is being done to the kid, how would he feel? How would he cope?

 Sometimes, parents while trying to be overprotective or overly vigilant, treat child in a harsh way. They assume, this is the only way to keep the child disciplined. But that’s a totally wrong approach. Using terms like worthless, good for nothing or burdensome for your own kid is just too wrong. Even asking the teachers to use harsh physical discipline if the child misbehaves is far from any definition of good parenting. Also, what’s the point of blaming child for every misfortune incurred upon the parents? There are just too many behavioral and attitudinal displays of bad parenting. Parents should carefully think about these facts considering the dire consequences of such actions.

Identifying of child abuse can be done through several signs displayed by the child. One of the prime signs is when child starts showing sudden changes in his behavior or school performance. It can be because of some maltreatment being meted out to him in his home. When parents start neglecting child or stop caring about him, child begins doing things that can attract attention of his parents. Child needs to feel important and no one does it better than his parents. But when parents themselves start ignoring kids because of any reason, child finds a lack of adult supervision and shows signs of sudden behavioral changes.

In case child does not receive any help for his medical or physical problems that would definitely come under the category of child abuse. When a child is overly compliant or withdrawn and always appears watchful, it’s definitely sign of child abuse. The symptoms of withdrawal can occur because child is not getting adequate attention from his family members and especially parents. Sometimes, child also shows learning problem which has no connection with any kind of psychological or physical disorder.

Lack of good parenting is amply demonstrated by the kids through several behavioral signs. One of them is coming to school early and staying late. The causes of this behaviour can range from lack of love from parents to poor treatment received by him at home. Child abuse is a serious issue that must be given all sort of attention. Remember, when you neglect a child, you are also neglecting a bright future and potentially a good human.