Any type of violence which negatively impacts the personality of a child is known as misbehaviour with a child. Physical, sexual or emotional misbehaviour, torture and violence are included in this matter.

This can be explained as follows:

1. By physical misbehaviour, we mean any action which harms the child physically or hurts him/her. 

2. All sexual crimes that have been listed in the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005, are included in this. 

3. In emotional category, any act or omission of an act by which the child suffers any kind of emotional stress or mental pain is considered as misbehaviour with the child. 

4. Any such prejudiced act which discriminates against a child on the basis of sex, religion, caste, colour or job. Giving physical punishment has been regarded as a way to discipline. But according to modem psychologists, physical punishment is a type of misbehaviour with children because it promotes negative tendencies among children and this act disrupts appropriate personality development of the child.