I found this Article in the Earlychildhood News. It was written by Marion Marion, Ph.D. Published by the Excellence Learning Corporation 2007. http://earlychildhoodnews.com
As we talked about emotion regulation in class today I began to wonder how we might help our young children to manage emotions. The article discussed how children are not able to understand another's perception and that their anger in classrooms has three parts. They feel anger, express anger, but they do not seem to understand anger therefore the article encourages teachersto guide children toward understanding and managing anger. Children express anger by emotional scripts that they have learnd by example. Therefore children need help writing heathy emotional anger scripts. According to the article the steps in helping them write healthy emotional anger scripts are as follows; 1)send helpful messages to children about feeling and expressing anger in early childhood classrooms, 2)teach young children how to use words to express anger, 3)teach children about being "a little angry" or "very, very angry", 4) Explain angry feeling and encourage angry children to talk about the situation that made them angry, 5)use thinking puppets to put discussion about managing anger into the curriculum, and 6)use books and stories about anger.
As managing anger and other emotions can make for a well balanced child, the article has some good points in teaching the child to not only express their anger in a healthy manner, to understand why they are angry along with the fact that it is ok to get angry, and to deal with it as well.
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Thank you for this post. My boyfriend and I are both hotheads and I we've both been making a serious effort to keep it cool. Anger is not a bad emotion, it's what people do with it that can sometimes be wrong. This helps!
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great post as well. Anger is never talked about enough. We talk about being happy and we even talk about sad but how often do we talk to our children about being angry? I also agree that anger is not a bad emotion, its just like any other emotion we feel. Usually anger is covering up a different emotion though such as hurt or fear and we should be talking to kids to find out what the real problem is. I will definatly look this article up and read it.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true I think that if you dont help your little ones know what they are feeling and understand why then it will always come out as a "sideways" emotion. We all get mad there is no getting past it and we have all seen what happens when its not dealt with right. Teach the children as they grow up to deal with it and maybe there will be less problems with anger in their future. ( and ours as parents!!!)
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