Avoid being passive (weak in setting boundaries); aggressive (hostile or entitled); or passive-aggressive (acting out through indirect behaviors like slamming a door or not responding to an email).
This distinction does not preclude that the same child may suffer from symptoms of both kinds, and that aggressive, acting-out behavior may indeed mask depressive feelings and anxiety.
"I've never been very aggressive about acting, although I love it very much.
The researchers concluded that even the man-eating great white sharks, like the one that terrified our collective imaginations in Jaws, might be aggressive individuals acting out.
Dr. Reis had been insulated from the problems by lower-level Energy Department officials who "should have been more aggressive in acting on their suspicions," Mr. Boss said.
Inflation could also not have been much lower without becoming deflation, and the Fed has been aggressive in acting to prevent falling prices.
A risk assessment for "Eden," compiled in November, 2015, warned of the dangers of fire, trench foot, hypothermia, and "persons becoming aggressive and acting violent due to the stresses of living wild".
Some states seem to have just gone through the motions of creating a plan, while others have been aggressive about acting on their recommendations, Baumgart says.
Their spin on events this year is that a more aggressive South Korea (acting as an American "puppet" regime, an old charge) has been the provocateur, repeatedly staging military exercises near North Korean waters.
