Anger Management for Kids aged 6 to 12 (only in Cape Town at this stage)

Do you sometimes despair with your kids attitude, anger and behaviour?
One minute your kid is great, and the next minute you feel they have turned into a ‘monster’.

They don’t listen. They don’t respect you. They upset you. They push your boundaries and buttons. They have temper tantrums and swear and shout. They smash things at home. Their school work is suffering or you get reports of poor behaviour at school.

There may be several reasons behind their anger and behaviour. These may include:

• Family separation or divorce
• Bullying
• Low self-esteem
• Upset
• Mistaken beliefs
• Unmet needs
• Deliberate manipulation
• Attention seeking

Don’t blame yourselves as parents - whoever said parenting was easy?

Anger management sessions for children aim to give them an understanding of their anger and provide practical tools to help them manage it better so they don’t get into trouble or mess up their schooling. It also helps them to forge better relationships with their parents, their siblings and friends. This serves them in the long term to have healthier relationships as they mature into adults.

An angry child becomes an angry adult.

A bully child becomes a bully adult.

Act sooner rather than later and help your kid and yourselves.

In addition, I offer Parents anger and behaviour management for their kids. It is important for parents to support their kids and in turn, they will also learn something about anger management themselves. This can be useful in a family structure.

If there are problems at school, I can provide support at school or help liaise with the teacher so that your child is supported with a consistent message both at home and at school.

Note: My experience has shown that kids are very receptive to anger management and require very few sessions to transform. It is harder once they become teenagers and after bad behaviour has established itself.

Anger Management For Young People (Teenagers to 21)

There are a lot of very angry young people in South Africa and they need a lot of support.

The young person will challenge you to the limits, will push your boundaries and your ‘buttons’. They can be abusive, dishonest, manipulative, threatening etc. They may display a Jeckyll and Hyde personality - one minute they are OK, the next minute they are terrible. Raging hormones and the desire to be independent are part of the problem, however losing control and being aggressive is unacceptable and considered to be abusive behaviour whether at school or college, at home or socially. There is also a real concern over the use of drugs, alcohol and engaging in risky behaviour. Now is the time to NIP IT IN THE BUD!

Some contributing factors may include:

• Divorced or separated parents.
• A new spouse of a parent.
• Low self-esteem.
• Bullying.
• Stress.
• Trouble at school or elsewhere.
• Drugs.
• Girlfriends and boyfriends.
• Sexuality.
• Sibling rivalry.
• A lack of boundaries in the home.

We have a lot of experience in working with young people to give them practical rules to use to help them feel and act more in control. We build trust and rapport and usually help a young person to transform before they ruin their life, their career and future relationships they may have.

We will work with them on a one on one basis. Sometimes the problem is not only anger. These confidential sessions give support and a safe space for the young person to open up and feel supported.

It is also useful to share key learning with parents and sometimes with teachers so that the young person is supported as much as possible. Often these learnings prove useful to those parents who have similar behaviours to their children.

Remember : We model behaviour for our children.

For example, if we are aggressive, they learn aggression. If we swear, we teach them it is OK for them to swear.

Anger Management will help secure their future to become responsible non-abusive adults. They will learn to be assertive and be in control when they feel angry.