Customer Reviews

Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out: The Anger Management Book

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This book is an exceptional work book for adolescents. My 12 year old son was able to use this book on his own as a learning tool. Next, we read the book together and discussed his answers. This book is great for parents and children, but could also be used by teachers, counselors, Psychiatrics, or Psychologists to help view underling anger factors.

My eight year old son has a pretty hot temper and was getting in trouble at school because of it. He was also having trouble making and keeping friends. Does this sound familiar? Read on. We liked this book because he could read it himself. It also has questions as you go through to help reinforce the different concepts and apply them to your own situation. It is amusing, I colud hear my son laughing as he was reading it and he would say "Mom come and look at this, It's really funny". The book gives clear guidelines regarding how to 'Chill Out' which my son is beginning to use with VERY good effect. I would recommend this book to anyone with an angry child.

I think this book is already helping my 11-year old son. Although I could not get him to read the book himself, he was willing to listen and interact as I read it to him. Because it is very focused and relatively short, this approach worked for us. The real breakthrough came in doing one of the distraction exercises recommended. -- My son was truly amazed as a smile played over his face and he said, "It works, I can't stay mad." He still has a long way to go, but he has some new tools now to try to change his life.

I bought this book for my son, he and I sat down and started reading it and laughed from the start. My son took a great interest in reading it and is normally pretty resistant to the subject in general. The authors approach is straightforward and humorus at the same time. It is hard work trying to change a difficult trait at a young age, but this book gives good advise in a way that young people can understand, relate, and open up too. Thanks!

I am an 11-year-old boy in fifth grade and this book really came in handy for me. The suggestions all work, and the fill-in-the-blank makes you think. I definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to control their anger.

This book was an excellent resource because it was a tool that both child and parent could work on together. We would read sections together and then talk about examples that pertained to our own situation and how we could handle them in a different manner. Several ideas/solutions are given in the book on how to handle anger at the child's point of view. My son is ten and using this book and counseling has helped a great deal. My son told me that the "red book" helped him. I've noticed a big improvement.

What a wonderful book. I read the reviews here before purchasing and my only reservation was with the "sarcastic" humor in the book. Actually, it is the humor that makes this book work. It was the bait that got my son hooked on the book.

I bought this for my 8 year-old son. He started to read it immediately. The book is a book and a workbook where you do some introspection. When he saw there were places to write down his responses, he ran and got a pencil. The first day he (we) spent nearly an hour reading and answering questions before we told him he needed to put it down and go to bed.

The book does a good job of validating the feelings that a child (actually all of us) has and gives great ways to deal with those responses. If you have ever encouraged your child to say "gooz fah bah" (from Anger Management the movie), then this is the book for you.

This book can be used directly by kids which is what I liked about it. The author has a humorous style with his writing that kept our students interested. The illustrations were clever, too.

This book was difficult to use with elementary age children, especially those who are K-4th grade. Some of the sarchastic humor and tongue-in-cheek humor was very tough for younger children and/or kids with lower intellectual functioning. When I tried to use this several times with kids; the concepts did not engage them and seemed to go above their heads. I would also like this book more if it was sectioned off in short activities and lessons.
Although I do not have any teenage clients at this time; I imagine that this book would work very well with adolescents. I will continue to try and use this book, however. It may just be my current caseload that is not responding....

I am an intensive in-home therapist who works with chldren and adolescents ages 5 - 17. A lot of my clients have anger issues and I have been using this book with those age 13 and younger. We read a page together and then talk about any of the questions that are asked and take any surveys, etc. during our sessions. This book is a great way to introduce children to the concept of CBT without using the technical CBT language. It teaches them about automatic thoughts without calling it that and is working well with "my" kids.
I would recommend it to anyone who has a client load which includes 8 - 13 year olds dealing with anger issues.
Janet A. Suffel, MA, NCC, QMHP