How Do You Teach Your Kids To Cope With Anger?
In view of the Virginia tech episode, a lot of questions are coming up about mental health. I talked about doing medical check ups regularly in one post and I think focusing on your mental health is important too. Most often people tend to ignore their lows and brush aside actual symptoms of depression. Families don’t know how to deal with the depressed person in their family and classify the depressed person as ‘weird’ or ’strange’ without actually going to the root of the problem.
I think that learning to deal with anger is an important tool in dealing with mental health issues later on. Nowadays parents are overloaded with work and in their frustration they could say or do things that appear to be out of anger. We as parents can learn to deal with our anger, not by suppressing it but by accepting it and coming to terms with it;we can start to look at anger in the face and keep our calm.
If we can do this our kids will learn the basic truth that anger doesn’t really get you anywhere if you don’t channel all that energy in the right direction. We could help our kids out in various ways….I’ve often noticed that distracting a child’s attention is a short-term cure for temper tantrums.
-Talk to your child, explain the situation as simply as you can and maybe your child will think about what you said some other time.
-Get your child to release anger by showing it and not hurting others. You can get your child to take out that aggression by painting pictures or immersing him in some activity where he can get the anger out of his system.
-Don’t encourage your child to continue tantrums by playing over-indulgent parent.
-Try as hard as you can not to succuumb to your frustrations in front of the child.
This website would be useful for parents.
anger management, Virginia Tech tragedy, children, mental health, temper tantrums, parents
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