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Helping Your Angry Child: A Workbook for You and Your Family

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While the activities in this book may work for some people, I myself was put off by the often patronizing and otherwise corny tone. The focus of the book is on the entire family, which may be helpful for people with more dysfunctional family relationships. Even though I consider our family to have its share of "dysfunction," I couldn't relate our family to the six types of FAT or "Family Affective Themes," which sounded interesting to begin with but found nothing seemed to match up with the stated results or really make any sense as far as our family is concerned, therefore I questioned the validity of whether these categories are theoretical or oversimplified and whether they work in reality. If you believe your child's angry outbursts are the result of imitating behaviors learned at home then this book might be a good choice. As for our family, where the anger in one of our children seemed really "out of left field," the book that helped us is The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene, which takes the perspective that angry explosive outbursts are triggered by an inability to handle changes and a tendency to become easily frustrated, comparing the deficit in these skills to more commonly understood "lags" in abilities such as reading or athletics. We also liked the workbook A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger : A Resource Book for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers by Eliane Whitehouse and Warwick Pudney, which offers simple anger-related activities and advice for parents and teachers in a more straightforward and less condescending way.

THis book helped not only me understand my child more, but understand myself and my ex-husband more. Me and my ex-husbands girlfriend got together for my 8 yr old daughter's well-being and are starting a family out-speak night with this book. I can't wait to see how it goes! I've already used some of the techniques in the book and THEY WORK!!! If you have a child that is acting out...This is the bok to buy!
Lisa D 38 yr old single mother of 2
South Jersey

I used this book while creating an anger management curriculum for 7th graders. While some of the book is much more applicable for young children, I used a lot of information for my students successfully, such as discovering from where anger stems. I think this book, full of games, exercises and poems as well as information for parents, is geared perfectly for little ones.