This unique self-help book uses the reader's love and knowledge of football to teach easily remembered anger control skills. Filled with quotes from NFL and College Coaches, this book introduces new skills that have been developed with familiar football terms and concepts. Readers will be encouraged to solve conflicts without anger by using the four downs of football. They will learn how to stop snapping in anger by using the innovative T.I.M.E! technique. With 144 easy to read pages, this book is your answer to becoming a champion in anger control!
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Football is a contact sport, and the contact is often violent. Yet a man from Freehold has published a book that uses football as a metaphor for decreasing violence and controlling anger. It is called "4 Downs to Anger Control," and the author is Tom Letson, a counselor in the Howell Township Middle Schools and a football coach at Allentown High School. He found football analogies useful in anger-control sessions - "most men understand four downs and punting when you get to fourth down" - and decided to write a book using them. For example, readers are encouraged to view themselves as "head coach" of their anger, to "officiate" arguments and "throw the flag" at such penalties as profanity or name-calling. Mr. Letson is planning a version for children and a book using basketball analogies. -- Carl Summers, New York Times, Oct. 10, 1999
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Football is a unique sport. It teaches us about life and more importantly, about how to handle the difficulties in life. It teaches us mental discipline, perseverance, how to handle defeat, how to respect authority, how to strive toward our goals, how to accept victory with humility and to accept defeat as a lesson for future triumphs. You can use this sport to improve your life. This book will be your game plan for success. If you love football, this strategy will work to help you improve anger control, but you will need at burning desire in your gut to be a better person. You are already half way there - you love football! This book will help you to use this knowledge to be a better a father, husband, employee, friend, and person. You will relate to this book and you will improve. There's only one season in life, so make it a great one and don't waste one more second.
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Works Great With Students!,
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I am a school counselor and this book is by far the most effective anger managment approach I have ever used with students. They are interested in the football part of it and that part of it alone helps them to learn the skills. The author's no-nonsense "coaching" writing style also helps to give my students a blast of reality. How about a workbook to go with it!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Husband Loved It!,
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Thank you! I always knew my husband needed to read something on anger but I never wasted my money on a book he would never read. But mixing football with anger management made me think he would go for it and he did - he took one look at the cover and he was willing to give it a try. Now he walks around the house using his same old boring football talk when he's getting angry - who would have thought I would have enjoyed that! I would recommend that every wife with a sports nut husband get this book for him - if for anything for your own sanity.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Idea,
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This review is from: 4 Downs to Anger Control (Paperback)
I purchased this for my 15 year old son who refused to read anything about anger management. We went over the names of the chapters and the first one titled "Opening Kickoff" set the tone and got his attention. He's a football fan and became interested in what the author had to say. It's a start and I would recommend this book to anyone with a son who has an anger problem.
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