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Scenario

When children use aggressive play to process separation anxiety

My son only wants to play violent war games since his dad deployed and I keep redirecting him to gentler activities but he just gets more aggressive.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The child needs to metabolize powerful feelings through play rather than have them sanitized away by anxious adults.

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