My daughter, Alexandra is right! The best anger management strategy for children are parents. We need to be good role models; to familiarize ourselves with anger management concepts, tips, strategies, and techniques that both help our children to cope with the stresses of their every day live as well as being anger management tools to share with our children.
Helping Children Learn Anger Management
It's important for parents to remember that children spend just as much time learning about themselves as they do learning about the world around them. Although children need to know that anger is a natural and healthy emotion, they also need to learn that like other emotions - love, sadness, and joy - anger needs to be expressed appropriately and responsibly.
It's important for parents to remember that children spend just as much time learning about themselves as they do learning about the world around them. Although children need to know that anger is a natural and healthy emotion, they also need to learn that like other emotions - love, sadness, and joy - anger needs to be expressed appropriately and responsibly.
The steps in helping our children learn to manage their anger are the same as the steps for us adults. Give them anger management tips for soothing their anger, help them find strategies to stay calm, and teach them techniques for constructively expressing their anger.
The first step in anger management for children is to help our children understand when anger begins and teach them to be aware of the physical symptoms of growing anger.
Teach them that anger
…makes them breathe faster.
…makes their face turn red.
…makes their muscles tense
and, makes their skin feel tight.
As a parent, an education activist and martial arts instructor, it is MY responsibility to learn anger management, get certified in anger management, teach it...and MODEL IT!What's sad is that anger management isn't taught in martial arts schools, even though it is self-defense! Probably because most instructors don't take the time to participate in a training program specifically designed for martial arts instructors.
The program that I am certified in was created by Dr. Tony Fiore, "The Anger Coach". He is the world's preeminent anger management instructor.
My mission is to arm my children and our students with a kind of mental self-defense that brings them peace and happiness for today and the future. It is to stop the need for anger management to be something children (and adults) learn after they have fallen victim to their own (or someone else's) anger. We parents (and teachers) must become the PREVENTION specialists, because we have tremendous influence with our children—and because we have dedicated our lives to our children and their success.
Anger management, in today's world, is self-defense.
If you have any questions, please feel free to use the comments area below or contact me directly at 856-235-0414 --be sure to ask for Master Peter Liciaga!
Sincerely yours,
Peter Liciaga
http://www.peterliciaga.org/
