How Can I Manage My Anger?

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Anxiety, fear, embarrassment, and self-doubt are hard to talk about for most kids.

The goal for parents is not just to stop the outbursts.

As the pressure drops, the explosions usually do too.

When parents reach out to me for help with their children, teens, and even grown children, it is often about anger. They bring up yelling, arguing, slamming doors, rigid refusals, and even punching holes in walls. The common thread is that most of these angry episodes seem disproportionate to the situations to which they correspond.

Billy, age 11, just this week had a longer-than-expected time to complete the homework assignment, which turned into a meltdown. Gabby, age 9, recently flipped out in a shouting match after hearing the word "no." A small mistake led 16-year-old Carter into rage.

The examples from my counseling practice and the other names later in this post are made-up. But their representative behaviors are as true as the........

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