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Why children have to wrestle, tussle and fight

This is how children learn their own limits and those of others.(Bild: stock.adobe.com/Andrey Bandurenko )

When children hit, bite and fight each other, it can make you feel uncomfortable just watching. Especially when toys and the like are used as weapons. What's the point of all this "fighting" anyway, does it increase children's propensity for violence and should it be stopped? We asked the expert!

Don't worry, childish fighting doesn't automatically turn your offspring into the next violent offender.