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Luis, age 10.5 months : Aggressive behaviour

Luis had always been placid and hardly anything would startle him. But when Luis was ill and had been vomiting for about three nights he started crying and smacking his parents in the face. But when he got better, he carried on smacking them, but only when they were together; if one of them left the room, he would not hit! At first they took no notice, as he was ill and he was frustrated. After trying not to react to him, the slaps got harder and more regular. His parents noticed that he would only smack them when they picked him up and then talked to each other and not giving him attention.