but under this definition, it's still excessive force. Children will be children, and if they don't grow out of it, then send them to juvie or hand them a knock or two to make them learn their place. According to something I read in psychiatry classes (and in a simplified format while studying Forensic medicine) displays of aggression like this from an adult towards a child may indicate certain abnormalities in the adult's own thinking patterns. In other words, mostly a low tolerance limit. And that, believe me, is not good.