Anger management makes for a respectful parent-child dynamic

Angela Baura:

When Karen Johnson tripped over yet another toy that her son had left lying on the living room floor recently, she was furious - and just a hair's breadth away from shouting at him. So she closed her bedroom door and yelled into a closet. Then she gently reminded her little boy to clear away his toys, which he did. Johnson is sourcing anger-management techniques from the Orange Rhino Challenge - a parenting support network on Facebook derived from an American mother's public commitment to not yell at her children for 365 days.

The challenge, which began on January 21, is the brainwave of a stay-at-home mother of four boys, aged 5½ years and under. She chose the pseudonym Orange Rhino to symbolise her determination to forge ahead like a rhino, yet remain warm like the colour orange.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 29, 2012 2:04 AM
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