by Meg Ulrich | Jul 10, 2023
“Life without problems is like school without classes; you’re probably not going to learn anything.” When a child has an anger problem at school, parents are often asked to speak with their son or daughter about what happened. Young children are not...
by Meg Ulrich | Jun 20, 2023
“The first step toward change is awareness” Children are not particularly self-aware. They are often late to recognize hunger, fatigue or even the need to go to the bathroom. Since anger distorts cognitive processes, it would be unreasonable to expect...
by Meg Ulrich | Jun 13, 2023
The ability to calm down when angry is a developmental skill that actually begins in infancy. As children mature, particularly as they develop language, they use strategies that they learn by modeling others. While FIRED UP emphasizes addressing the underlying...
by Meg Ulrich | Jun 12, 2023
“Self-control is the ability to achieve ones goals and refrain from actions that contravene those goals.” It is important to praise children for when they could have lost their temper but don’t. There are many such instances, even small ones that we might...
by Meg Ulrich | Jun 6, 2023
“Your beliefs, either positive or negative, helpful or hurtful, largely determine everything you do and how you do it” Anger most commonly involves how we think about things that happen to us or around us. People with anger problems tend to interpret...
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