 A Making Lemonade Tidbit "When your child can’t control his angry emotions." When your child can’t control his angry emotions, tends to lash out at others,
verbally and physically....how can you help him stop getting so angry?
Don’t answer anger with anger: Avoid responding to your child’s anger with
anger of your own. Your anger will tend to escalate your child’s sour mood.
Instead, control your own anger first. Reply to your child in a calm, even-
tempered voice. You will be better able to direct your child’s actions, and
you’ll be modeling the behavior you wish to see in your child. Good Ways/Bad Ways: Your child needs to learn that while angry emotions are
normal, there are acceptable and unacceptable ways of dealing with them. You
can help your child learn this by acknowledging the reason he’s angry. Often,
just knowing that you understand his feelings can calm him down. As an
example, what if your child is angry because his brother took his bike without
asking, and he’s shouting and swearing?
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