In the Anger Series, I’ve looked at three different moments when supporting a child through anger:
🔴 During the outburst → helping your child calm down
🔴 Afterward → addressing the deeper problem underneath the anger
🔴 Over time → creating conditions that help children develop anger-management skills
Each of these moments requires a different response.
In this post, I bring these ideas together into the Anger Response Tool, a three-step framework to help you decide what to do when your child is angry.
You’ll also get a Visual Guide you can print and keep somewhere visible until the three steps become second nature.
1️⃣URGENCY
Is this actually an emergency?
Is my child or someone else in danger?
Is something about to be damaged or destroyed?
Is there something genuinely time-sensitive that I need to deal with right now?
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