my behavior changed a lot in lockdown I was carving to go out and do something and was going crazy eat a lot etc but thank god it's over now lockdown was lifted some time ago now almost every high was back to normal 

Currently there is a situation of confinement by COVID 19, which has totally changed the lives of children and adolescents and their family group worldwide, due to the measures required by the quarantine, schools have been closed, problems with public services, which have changed our daily routine and caused stress to the family group, there are strategies that can be applied in the family; emotions must also be managed because children and adolescents learn the behaviors of significant adults in their lives, so to avoid violence in children due to confinement, we must take advantage of such a situation by applying strategies such as: communicating better, respecting their spaces, their silences, being understanding, respectful, sharing more as a family, playing all kinds of games, among others.

_Thoughtlessly reactive comment from an entitled member of unrestrained society!!_

We have no shortage of violence in South Africa currently. And especially with the wave of looting we experienced recently, it really got out of hand.

What I find most disturbing, is the idea that "it is your human right" to give expression to your emotions. That opens the door to basically just do as you please in some cases and then blame it on circumstances...or your emotions...as if you had no control over it. In other words, if I don't like things the way they are, my emotions take over and I can do as I please...even resort to violence. 

Yet when others stand up to protect their loved ones and their property, one is not "allowed to take the law into your own hands". Even when the authorities attempt to contain the violence, they must handle the culprits with gloves and please "not use excessive force" (irrespective of their own safety). There is something wrong with this picture.

I fully agree with the message contained in your post. We need to practice self-control and thus take control of our emotions. Yes, we can and will feel those emotions, but it's the way we respond to those emotions that makes the difference.  

it is unfortunate how isolation is affecting the behavior of the entire population, I believe that fluctuations in moods and behavior of each person becomes a determinant of personality, however these changes or character are sometimes reinforced by loved ones and close people who are responsible for making feedback from the behavior of the people around them.

Thank you @tarazkp honestly as much as we have the right to feel these emotions we should also deem it right to control them while making no excuses for our actions.I honestly am of the opinion that we divert those emotions to fuel us to do better in future and become stronger.
Thanks once again

The world will be a lot better if we tilt towards balancing between selfishness and selflessness. Know when to express yourself(selfish) without hurting the next person and when to control(selfless) your emotions so you don’t hurt the next person.  

I guess I’ll be glad two of my kids just play violent video games 😵

I have said to all the children when they tried the “you/they/this other thing made me whatever” by saying that even when I’ve been yelling at them when they made me mad, I always chose to cut loose with the full knowledge that it was the wrong thing to do and should have made the better decision. 

Eventually we all started making the better decision, only took years 😓

It’s not the bestest feeling knowing that you’re deliberately doing the wrong thing for instant gratification so I can see why people prefer to pretend they have no control at all. 

During this pandemic, we forced our kids to stay at home which i agreed main reason to act little violent because their mental stress of doing online class and only stuck with online entertainment not that helpful to chill their brain .I think pysical activites is the best excercise for even mental stability. Hope this kind of incidence will be stoped as we are allowed to do social activites officialy since the lockdown getting over and pandemic getting converted to endemic . 

Japan has seen a few more  violent incidents in public then usually since this started. 

You have a point about controlling emotions. I think most of us do not even know that we have an influence over our own emotions. Focus effects thoughts and thoughts effect emotion. Most of my anger issues were solved from realizing that.  I think the difference between those who grow stronger and those who fall apart is mostly about beliefs. If you say to yourself “I can’t take it anymore”…well guess what’s gonna happen…

Anyway, at the beginning I thought it best for everyone to stay home and try to stamp this out, but we totally botched any chance of that so now I hope we can get back to living our lives without fear as much as can. Those who find solace in taking whatever preventative measures can do so. In many case, I’ll try to remain positive to be at my best

An important paper on epigenetics showed how Holocaust survivors - who had experienced a long period of high-level cortisol - produced more Cortisol-sensitive children (needing less 'stress' to trigger high 'alarm response'), as these were in a sense 'warned' during development in the mom's belly that there would be 'danger' outside once they were born. 

I'm very curious if we see a similar pattern in the next-generation kids that are born in this era, from parents who felt the anxiety of the pandemic. 	

I believe (or am learning) most emotional regulation isn't a lack of will-power, but mostly stems from a lack of knowledge on how to balance our neurochemistry. Just teaching kids some breathing exercises and educating people on the importance of blocking blue light and not eating sugar (No, that's not all, just keeping it simple for the sake of this comment :D) will make a huge difference in 'emotional' (out-of-balance hormonal) responses in people in general.