Kid friendly book to work on anger management

dr. pepper

Tue, Feb 07 2017, 9:15 pm

My extremely intense and bright 7 year old is overwhelmed with her anger and temper (as am I Wink

).
She is mature and understands that it's a difficult middah and is open to discussing how she needs to work on it.

I work very hard to help her see this, not as something that defines her, but something that is part of her. And that Hashem just expects her to work on it. And that the fact that she is self aware at such a young age is amazing...etc.

She is very open to working on it but lacks a lot of emotional verbal language.

For example, when I explained that to combat losing ones temper, we need to first recognize when we begin to feel angry, and I asked her what angry feels like, she didn't really understand what I was saying. But she did say she wants to work on it and I told her I will look for a book so we can work on it together (I am very open about my struggle to work on my temper as well).

What are some good book recommendations for this age? Jewish would be a plus but not necessary.
Thanks in advance!

amother

Yellow

Wed, Feb 08 2017, 1:22 am

amother wrote:

What to do when your temper flares. I'm a professional and love this series.

is this the one that also has a book on anxiety? the name of the series is escaping me now, maybe it is the one you are mentioning. when I worked in a mental health clinic I used them with my children clients and it was great!

amother

Violet

Wed, Feb 08 2017, 2:48 am

Starving the anger gremlin is a very good book. Im not sure what age it is for. Its a CBT way of helping anger. Tried and tested.

https://www.amazon.com/Starvin.....52867

sourstix

Wed, Feb 08 2017, 9:53 am

op thank you so much for starting this thread! I am always looking for tools to help my kids (sh..myself too) to help with regular normal issues! thanks again. and thank you to everyone with the good leads. it was so helpful. sometimes I go to amazon to look for self help books but dont know what to look for. this was very helpful. thank you thank you thank you;