Keep a journal of what triggers your child’s anger. Encourage older children to keep a journal (and to reflect on it). The clues are usually found between the lines when the diary is read back later.

Encourage your child to share when they need to, and to use the tools here to help gain clarity.

Talk things through with your child as often as possible.

Help your child to slow down and BREATHE, using simple techniques.

Help your child find the best physical activity to release tension.

Nature has many healing qualities. Take your child out into the great outdoors as often as possible and encourage older children to get outside too.

Do something kind for yourself. As a role model, you show your child what self-love looks like. It enables them to do the same.

Let your child know it’s safe to FEEL; that it’s ok to cry rather than explode with rage.

Help your child learn perspective through laughter and let go of stressors. How important is what’s happening now? Will it matter tomorrow, or a year from now?

We often get angry at things we can’t control, (that’s almost everything and everybody outside of us), because it’s easier than looking at our own pain. Help your child heal their true pain, rather than externalizing it elsewhere.