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Strategies to Reduce Children's Anger

by S.K. Adams|J. Baronberg
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Early Years (Birth-5), Promoting Good Character in Your Child, more...
  • Limit exposure to violent media.
  • Identify and provide for children's needs for rest, sleep, and healthy food.
  • Identify and provide for children's needs for space, quiet, and moderate temperature.
  • Provide adequate supervision with age-appropriate expectations, especially for sitting, waiting, and sharing.
  • Offer teacher assistance with frustrating situations.
  • Provide opportunities for active play and large-muscle activities such as pounding clay or play dough with a wooden mallet, hammering golf tees into blocks of Styrofoam, using fluid materials such as shaving cream or finger paints, or jumping rope or running.
  • Provide soothing activities, such as water play or sand in the sensory table or play dough or clay in a quiet area.
  • Offer time in the Cozy Corner.
  • Reinforce children's positive actions dealing with anger. (I'm glad you could tell me how you were feeling." "You were very powerful when you figured out a way to handle what was upsetting you."
  • Acknowledge and accept anger but not aggressive behaviors.
  • Practice stress reduction activities.
  • Teach assertiveness skills.

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