Family Activities

• Emily refuses to cut her hair or to eat carrots, and throws a temper tantrum. We can talk to our child about what makes Jana angry in these two incidents: Maybe she is scared to cut her hair? Or maybe she does not like the carrots?
• We might want to encourage our child to talk about an incident where he/she felt angry. How did our child deal with it?
• Emily feels frustrated during her friend’s birthday party and expresses this feeling by creating a mess. Have we ever felt like Emily? What did we do?
• Grandmother showed Emily how she can stay the way she is but in a happier version of herself. She encouraged her to behave differently with Amir in the park instead of being angry. We can recall with our child incidents where he/she felt angry and think if he/she could behave differently.
• I am now an angry tiger or a happy tiger! Sometimes it is easier for children to express their feelings in play, so let’s help them. We can draw a happy tiger’s face and an angry one on two piece of papers and keep them readily available at home for our child to use whenever he/she needs to express his/her feelings.
• We can check in our library at home, or the public library for two books, which were distributed by Maktabat al-Fanoos: “Where Do I Go When I Am Angry” and “Amir’s Smile”. Both books are about anger and happiness from different point of views.

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