HOW TO DEAL WITH ANGRY CHILD...
Article by Leah
Davies, M.Ed
AVOID
1. Screaming at the
child.
2. Embarrassing the
child.
3. Shaming the
child.
4. Labeling the
child.
5. Threatening the
child.
6. Hitting the
child.
7. Hurting the child in any
way.
8. Indulging the
child.
9. Reinforcing inappropriate
behavior by giving in to his/her outbursts.
DO
1- Accept the child as a
valuable human being.
2- Accentuate his/her
strengths.
3- Acknowledge appropriate
behavior.
4- Provide a safe, respectful
environment with clear limits.
5- Follow through with
meaningful consequences for aggressive acts.
6- Provide a predictable day
with opportunities for the child to make choices.
7- Model kindness, fairness,
firmness, and consistency.
8- Watch the child carefully
noting the antecedents to hostile behavior.
9- Anticipate angry outbursts
and arrange activities to reduce them.
10- Understand that anger is
often a reaction to feeling misunderstood, unloved, hurt or afraid.
11- Assist the child in
learning and using a vocabulary of feeling words.
12- Listen and mirror the feelings he/she
expresses.
13- Facilitate communication
between the child and others.
14- Teach the child that anger is a natural
emotion that everyone has.
15- Help the child understand that it is okay to feel angry, but that it is not okay to hurt others.
16- Provide a safe place for
the child to calm him/herself.
17- Teach the child ways to
cope with angry impulses: stop and think, problem solve, sit alone, breathe
deeply, tense body and relax, use play dough, count, draw, exercise, rest or
read.
18- Help the child meet
his/her psychological needs: to feel loved, accepted, secure, recognized, and a
part of a group
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