Adults can express their internal distress verbally, since the child may not be able to express verbally, he expresses it by way of physical symptoms which vary according to the level of development of the child. These problems may be produced by variety of physical and emotional stresses such as birth defects, physical injury marital conflicts of parents, child beating, child neglect and chronic illness.

Parents get frequently concerned whether the particular behaviour of their child is 'normal' or whether they need to seek medical help for the same. Certainly if the characteristic of the child behaviour causes problems to other children, parents, teachers and others and they have failed in their efforts to tackle his undesirable behaviour, this is where Homoeopathy does wonders in treating such difficult problems with sweet pills and absolutely easy for children to get cured.

The common behaviour problems which make them "The Problem Child" and children suffer from are listed according to age at which they are most likely manifest.

       1) INFANCY (0-2 years)

a) Persistent Weeping and Crying.
b) PICA (mud, chalk ,sand etc eating) and other eating disturbances.
c) Head Banging ,Pulling of hairs
d) Breath Holding.
e) Thumb Sucking.
f) Excessive fear.
g) Fear of seperation or of left alone or excessive dependency.

2) PRE SCHOOL AGE (2-6years)

a) Nightmares or sleep disturbances.
b) Tantrums and temper with aggressiveness, Hyperactivity
c) Crying, shouting, jelousy to siblings clinging to mother or emotional reactions.
d) Enuresis (Bed wetting) and Encopresis
e) Masturbation.
f) Nail bitting and Thumb sucking.
g) Stammering, stuttering lalling or speech disturbances.
h) Tics or habit spasms.

3) SCHOOL AGE (6-13years)

a) School Phobia.
b) Comprehending or learning difficulties.
c) Dyslaxia
d) Obstinacy,stuborness and dependency.
e) Anti-Social behaviour like lying, stealing and vendelism etc.

(4) ADOLESENCE (13 years and above)
Masturbation.

a) Sexual indulgence like homosexuality, lesbianism, incest and heterosexuality.
b) Criminal activities or delequent behaviour.
c) Suicidal thoughts and tendency.
There are nearly as many occasions that a child is brought to the doctor because of behaviour problems or difficulties as for acute illness. Unlike acute illness, in which there is usually a simple clear-cut cause and treatment, behavourial problems require time patience and understanding to sort out. Some of these problems are discussed here.

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