Anger can be a healthy emotion. It tells us when something is just not right and when our boundaries are being crossed. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to protect ourselves. But when our anger is chronic or explosive it can hurt our health, destroy our relationships, and ruin our lives.

Anger control begins with a pause. When teaching yourself, your child, or your teen anger control, always begin with a pause.

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3 Great Lessons to Teach Children

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, commonsense.” -Thomas Edison

Teaching our children to work hard, stick to things, and pause before they impulsively react is critical if they are going to grow up to live high quality lives as independent adults.

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No matter how old we are, we value good friendships. Even at a young age, friendships are important to us- but the closer we get to the teenage years the more valuable our friendship become. 

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Depression in Children

Just because a child is sad doesn’t mean that he or she is depressed, but persistent sadness, irritability, and acting out behaviors should be investigated.

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4 Lessons to Teach Your Children

The way that they feel is temporary: When our children are going through a tough time they think that they are going to feel sad, angry, or frustrated forever.

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Child Bullying

According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 50% of children will encounter bullying to some degree, and 10% are bullied regularly.

What is child bullying? 

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FIVE GREAT QUOTES ABOUT CHILDREN

“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.”   -Catherine M. Wallace

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Parenting the angry child can try your patience and push you to the edge of sanity. When your child is explosive and full of bitter anger, you may feel like you are walking on egg shells, not knowing when the next hurricane will be triggered.

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Why is my child so angry? If your child is chronically angry, there may be a lot of pain behind the anger. Unexpressed and unresolved grief has a way of reappearing in the form of chronic anger and fits of rage. Often times childhood depression is masked behind irritability, anger, and rage.

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What is the parental introject? The parental introject is the parent’s voice internalized.

The things that we say to our children today, will be the things that our children say to themselves for the rest of their lives. We must choose our words very carefully.

When we become angry and say things that we don’t mean, we cannot go back and erase those things from our child’s brain. They become part of our child’s neurological hard-wiring.

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How to Calm Your Anger

“Between a stimulus and a response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” -Viktor Frankl

When we become angry or scared the emotional part of our brain responds within the blink of an eye. This is about ten times faster than the rational, reasoning, problem-solving part of our brain.

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Why do bullies bully? Bullies bully in order to feel more powerful. At the core of every bully is a deep sense of powerlessness. Many bullies are not even aware of how powerless they feel. They may walk around with their shoulder’s back and their head held high, believing that they feel good about themselves. They often convince us that they are full of confidence. They may even be popular at school. But people who feel a true sense of self-worth, do not need to go around putting others down in an effort to boost themselves up.

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If you want to empower your children and you want to feel empowered yourself, than I recommend that you read, Take the Bully by the Horns  by Sam Horn.

No More Bullying! Take the Bully by the Horns is an excellent bullying resource for parents.

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Validating your child’s emotions is important to their mental health. If you consistently let your child know that their feelings are important, they will be more willing to open up to you.

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