Anger. We love to hate it. Yet we all practice it as one of the ways to get what we want. Even if we get the result we seek, we loose something in the process. Anger tends to push people away rather than “connect” with them. We may get compliance but we don’t get the relationship we most cherish. How can we see anger in a different, perhaps even a positive way? Sherri Boles-Rogers points us in a different direction in helping to learn the language of behavior and anger. She says, “I think it’s so important for parents to make friends with their anger so that they can transform their anger rather than suppress it until they explode. Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese writer on mindfulness says, “cradle your anger like a mother holding her newborn”. I wonder if we can teach our children this method to transform their anger rather than suppressing and exploding as well? Learn more
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