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Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out: The Anger Management Book

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My eight year old son has a pretty hot temper and was getting in trouble at school because of it. He was also having trouble making and keeping friends. Does this sound familiar? Read on. We liked this book because he could read it himself. It also has questions as you go through to help reinforce the different concepts and apply them to your own situation. It is amusing, I colud hear my son laughing as he was reading it and he would say "Mom come and look at this, It's really funny". The book gives clear guidelines regarding how to 'Chill Out' which my son is beginning to use with VERY good effect. I would recommend this book to anyone with an angry child.

I think this book is already helping my 11-year old son. Although I could not get him to read the book himself, he was willing to listen and interact as I read it to him. Because it is very focused and relatively short, this approach worked for us. The real breakthrough came in doing one of the distraction exercises recommended. -- My son was truly amazed as a smile played over his face and he said, "It works, I can't stay mad." He still has a long way to go, but he has some new tools now to try to change his life.

Small,easy read.comic booklike...makes a lousy weapon in the heat of the moment...lots of great content and outside the box coping techniques...

This book is a quick, helpful read that has useful strategies and ideas for helping 8-18 year olds manage how they respond to situations that anger them.

Written for kids and to kids, this booklet is a workbook that provides questions and thought-provoking scenarios so your child can reflect on and begin to change behaviours as they learn new strategies.

This book was an excellent resource because it was a tool that both child and parent could work on together. We would read sections together and then talk about examples that pertained to our own situation and how we could handle them in a different manner. Several ideas/solutions are given in the book on how to handle anger at the child's point of view. My son is ten and using this book and counseling has helped a great deal. My son told me that the "red book" helped him. I've noticed a big improvement.

I bought this book for my son, he and I sat down and started reading it and laughed from the start. My son took a great interest in reading it and is normally pretty resistant to the subject in general. The authors approach is straightforward and humorus at the same time. It is hard work trying to change a difficult trait at a young age, but this book gives good advise in a way that young people can understand, relate, and open up too. Thanks!

Jerry Wilde, Ph.D., author of Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out, proves to youth that it is their thoughts, beliefs, and ideas that make them angry, not their parents or teachers or family. This is good news. Because if other people and things made you angry, what would be the point of trying to learn to handle your anger? You would have no control. This is the basis of a branch of therapy called Rational-Emotive Therapy, and Dr. Wilde does an impressive job in this book of teaching adolescents how to use these skills all by themselves to solve their anger problems. I have used this in my practice of Child and Family Therapy with boys who were always getting into fights. They were quickly able to apply the concepts to identify rational vs. irrational thoughts, and learned that if they changed their thoughts, they could change their behavior. Other methods of anger management or problem-solving don't always work when a child is being provoked by a bully, but this method rarely lets you down. This amazing interactive workbook will really engage your child, and the author's sense of humor reaches out to young and old.

This book is an exceptional work book for adolescents. My 12 year old son was able to use this book on his own as a learning tool. Next, we read the book together and discussed his answers. This book is great for parents and children, but could also be used by teachers, counselors, Psychiatrics, or Psychologists to help view underling anger factors.

This book can be used directly by kids which is what I liked about it. The author has a humorous style with his writing that kept our students interested. The illustrations were clever, too.

I ordered this book despite my misgivings about whether my 12 year-old son would want to read it or not. I thought he might be resentful about me getting the book and refuse to even look at it.

So I just left it out with a couple of other books, and then I started reading it while he was sitting next to me. The book was funny in parts, so I started laughing (particularly at the "this is your brain" and "this is your brain while angry" pictures, which were quite comical). He of course wanted to know what I was laughing at, and those pictures grabbed his interest because they appealed to his sense of humour. Then I started reading other funny parts out loud, and he was genuinely interested. So I just kept reading, funny or not, and he was hooked because of the excellent and funny writing style.

And he learned quite a bit. In fact, a couple of days after that, when I got into an argument with him and lost MY temper, he used the principles he learned in the book to tell me that I was CHOOSING to get angry. What could I say? He was right!

In fact, I would say that this book could probably be an eye-opener for a number of adults too. There are lots of adults out there who behave poorly when angry and blame other people for for it because they "made me angry". There are some good techniques for catching yourself before thinking negative or "demanding" thoughts that make you angry, and turning them into more constructive thoughts instead.

I definitely recommend this book.