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Dealing with Anger in Children and Teens,
Part 2: Effective Tools to Help You Handle It
by Q&A with James Lehman, MSW

It’s hard to get most adolescents to comply, but when you’re dealing with a hostile teen, it can be almost impossible. In part two of this series on anger and hostility in kids, James Lehman discusses concrete ways for you to break through your child’s force field of anger and defuse his hostility. Don’t give up yet—it really is possible to bring peace to your home.

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		Inappropriate behavior is not a personal attack upon you, even if it comes in that form. Understand that if a kid is calling you names or if he"s not doing his work or if he"s hitting his siblings or if he"s threatening to run away from home or he"s not doing his tasks, whatever it is that he"s not doing, don"t take it personally.…read more