anger

Feeling the mom rage? Try this easy trick for cooling your jets. Kids are brilliant. They make us laugh more than anyone else and fill our hearts right up with their tiny hugs and overenthusiastic kisses. But, let’s face it, at times they’d also test the patience of the most saintly among us. No matter […]

5 years ago

There are a couple of steps you can take.

8 years ago

Emotions can be contagious, especially those expressed vividly by our loved ones. When it comes to difficult emotions, like anger, sadness, frustration, anxiety, the infectious nature of them makes things more difficult. Good judgement can be quickly overridden by two (or more) people caught in the emotional circle. If the first person experiencing difficult emotions is […]

11 years ago

A child psychiatrist has shared her prescription for an electronics intervention designed to help a child who is prone to rages and angry outbursts to sleep better, focus and beat meltdowns.  Writing in Psychology Today, award-winning integrative child psychiatrist Victoria L. Dunckley, MD warned that chronically irritable children “are often in a state of abnormally high arousal and […]

11 years ago

Conflict is inevitable in life. It’s how we manage it that will impact our own wellbeing, as well as our children’s.  In fact, witnessing conflict can contribute to a child’s social development. They learn to to deal with conflicts in their own life partly through observation, and are highly likely to imitate – consciously and subconsciously – what they […]

11 years ago

“When children, like all humans, feel threatened, they tend to resort to anger in order to protect themselves.” So says Clare Crowley Collier, who has worked as a teacher and is qualified in Child Psychology and Psychotherapy, with vast experience of the issue of anger management in children and young people. “Threats can be external,” Clare […]

12 years ago