Melanie LukicEnglish 22/105/14Approximately approximately 1.6% of the US population can be described as potentially psychopathic. Some people come to the conclusion and determine that misunderstood children are potentially psychopathic. Identifying a child as a psychopath is developmentally inappropriate. The label “psychopath” cannot be assigned to a child who is developing emotionally, mentally, or physically. Children suffering from mental disorders are often portrayed as psychopaths and horrible people, but they are not, they are simply misunderstood. One reason why children should not be considered psychopathic is because of childhood development. “These were not normal child attacks. “It wasn't that I was frustrated [or tired]…His behavior was really out there…it happened for hours and hours every day, no matter what we did.” (Kahn) This child is acting this way because he is developing and is starting to act older than he actually is to prove his point. When children argue with adults they don't really take them seriously and this child feels the need to take action. This isn't because he's a psychopath, he's just trying to make himself understood. He is learning to express himself at this age. How do you deal with a loud, energetic child? Yelling and telling him to shut up or calm down? I really hope not. “The emotional skills are the same. A teacher might say, “Calm down!” – but how exactly do you calm down when you feel anxious? Where do you learn the skills to manage those feelings? (Kahn) A developing child cannot calm down on command because he would not understand what 'calm down' means. Children get very emotional when they are together and when an adult shouts and tells them to shut up they don't think about mu... middle of paper... and they want to make them proud. If parents can't control their emotions, they can't teach their children. Why should children have the disadvantage of not understanding how to control their emotions because their parents can't teach them? The definition of a psychopath is a person suffering from a chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior. The label “psychopath” cannot be assigned to a child who is developing emotionally, mentally, or physically. A child's brain is finished developing well past adolescence. Most of the time a child would be considered a psychopath is that the parents did not teach their children proper respect and lacked parenting skills. The child simply repeated what he saw and knew and continued to do wrong things his whole life because he didn't know until it was too late.