Angry children: How to respond, how to help

• Book ID: 101821424
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Weight: 471 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1058-1073
• DOI: 10.1002/cbl.20084

✦ Synopsis

Handling children's anger can be puzzling, draining, and distressing for adults. One of the major problems in dealing with anger in children is the angry feelings that are often stirred up in us. We need to remind ourselves that we were not always taught how to deal with anger as a fact of life during our own childhood. We were led to believe that to be angry was to be bad, and we were often made to feel guilty for expressing anger.

It will be easier to deal with children's anger if we get rid of this notion. Our goal is not to repress or destroy angry feelings in children or in ourselves but rather to accept the feelings and to help channel and direct them to constructive ends.