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When I Feel Angry (Way I Feel)

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Not only is this a great book for older toddlers and preschoolers, but also it is a great reminder for grownups. My (almost) three year old and I read this together to help us BOTH remember how to behave when we get angry. Any parent of a toddler or preschooler knows that frustrating feeling when your little one does things only they can understand (like color on the walls with marker, dump EVERYTHING out of all of the drawers in their dresser, etc.). This book is a nice reminder to take deep breaths or take a grownup time out instead of yelling. What a wonderful opportunity for discussion, too. I highly recommend this book!!

This book discusses anger, its causes, how it feels, and most importantly, healthy options for dealing with it. Anger can be overwhelming and frightening for anyone, and even more so for young ones will little experience regulating their emotions.
This book is empathetic "When I feel angry I want to say something mean, or yell or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it." One of my favorite elements of this book is that it gives many options for dealing with anger, from
counting to bike riding to walking away, and from being assertive to taking a nap, and from handling the problem independently to asking for help.
I work in a classroom full of 3, 4 and 5 year olds, and kids sometimes call each other names, often grab things from one another and often would rather keep playing when the "clean-up" signal is given. This book is relevant to preschoolers.
The last sentence I wish was a mantra for us all. "When I feel anrgry, I know what to do!"

I loved this book. The way the rabbit character looks when sheis angry is just the way I feel sometimes. I think this is a veryhelpful book for when you are feeling upset. It gives good ideas to make you feel better.

First, I have to confess that I had different expectations about this book (I thought it may be about other feelings too, but it's only about anger). The examples seemed poorly chosen for my 3-year old, who, for instance, does not really know what it means for somebody to make fun of him or why the teacher may unfairly berate him for talking in class. The idea of teaching kids that sometimes we cannot control the situation that angers us is good, but again, the example (I think one in which a favorite team loses a game) wasn't great. In general, the text was abstract and the illustration carried the burden of exemplifying what the text described...

May be more appropriate for an older child.

This book is very helpful in teaching kids about anger. It is a nice discussion to have with young kids. They often feel relieved that someone is willing to talk to about it especially if they have anger problems.

I purchased this book for my 4 year old son. I found it to be very well written and illustrated. As a School Psychologist myself, it's not always so easy to come up with the words when it involves your own child. However, I've seen a lot of books and this one just seems to work and the phrases and remarks seem to "stick" with my little guy. It's well priced through Amazon too because I first saw it in one of my professional catalogues and it was priced substantially higher. I think many children will be able to relate to the characters and feelings expressed in this book and it is so very important to help your children manage their feelings . . .

Cornelia Maude Spelman's When I Feel Angry provides an angry little bunny as a character in a simple picture book which tells of circumstances in which a bunny feels anger. The bunny must come to his own conclusions about how to deal with anger in this gentle lesson.

This book does a fantastic job of explaining the emotion, the situations that may cause it, how it feels ("a hot, tight feeling") and what we can do when we feel this way. It's an excellent teaching tool for both grown-ups and children alike. I've already seen the impact it has had on my son. He remembers the suggestions for what he can do when he's angry and he hasn't lashed out since we first read it. I was afraid it was going to be too preachy but it really wasn't. My son also loves the illustrations. He even asked for other books in the series and we ended up buying the entire series.

Therapist Cornelia Maude Spelman has written a wonderful series of books for children, teaching them how to cope with various emotions. In "When I Feel Angry", the focus is on how to deal with anger, as experienced by a young rabbit. Written as a story, the young rabbit goes through various events that cause her to experience anger, but then the latter part of the book teaches the young rabbit how to cope with anger - by talking about it, doing exercises to calm down etc. There is a brief note to parents by the author at the beginning of the book that explains how it is important to teach children how to cope with anger. The illustrations are vibrant and colorful and help make the story real for children.Highly recommended series of books for toddlers and up!

We borrowed this book from a friend and then had to buy our own copy. It has good illustrations, is easy to read, and is short enough that my 4-year-old son had it memorized after just a few readings. Now he "reads" it to me and, since it IS memorized, its easy for him to remember what options he has when he gets angry. Excellent book!