The Anger Workbook

Chapter 11: Managing a Child's Anger

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1. What is STEP 11 toward anger management?
 

2. Most parents were not properly guided in using anger during their own childhoods and their accumulated bad habits are then passed along to the next generation.  What does Scripture say about this? _(Ex. 34:7d)
 

3. Perhaps the greatest error parents make is letting the child set the
 

4. Describe a reactor mentality. 
 

5. What are the six keys to handling your child’s anger?
 
 
  c)
  d)
  e)
  f)

6. What might be an indication that you are threatened by your child’s anger?
 

7. Read Proverbs 25:15 and in your own words explain what Solomon was teaching.
 

8. When defensiveness is exhibited by a parent the child subconsciously reacts with
 

9. Why is it normal for children to react negatively to authority?
 

10. How are we instructed to raise our children in Proverbs 22:6?
 

11. Parents who are easily threatened by a child’s anger respond in several common ways.  Name them.
 
 
  c)
  d)
  e)
  f)

12. What promise is made in Proverbs 29:17?
 

13. When you lose shock over a child’s anger, the result is increased
  and the ability to relate with
  with and .

14. How do parents often exhibit impatience while communicating important lessons to their child?
 
 
  c)

15. How do these acts of impatience affect the child?
 

16. In Colossians 3:21 what does the Apostle Paul teach regarding our children?
 

17. It is not the instruction itself that the child is angry about, it is the fact that the adult is not letting the child have
 

18. Children need to feel
  to manage their own anger.

19. How would using choices and consequences benefit the child?
 

20. To teach our children to handle their anger correctly we must model healthy
 

21. Adults are more effective in helping children handle their anger when they give a
  performance in the
  role.

22. What questions could you ask yourself to determine if you lean too heavily on an authoritative style?
 
 
  c)
  d)

23. Our greatest impact on people is not in the words we speak but in the way we deliver those words.  In Ecclesiastes 12:11 how does Solomon describe the effects that our words should have?
 
 
  c) (v. 11c)

24. When we speak too strongly it implies:
 
 
  c)

25. What happens when a parent makes the mistake of giving too much attention to minor problems of the child?
 

26. Explain why the over emphasis on trivia represents a shallow understanding of the purpose of relationships.
 

27. When we focus too heavily on minor issues we teach children to be
 
  in their anger and when we let minor issues remain minor, the emotions are
  .

28. Children need
  and
  with their parents if they are to develop emotional composure.

29. When you can freely discuss your emotions with your children you will become more
  and thus more .

30. Parents who refuse to be vulnerable with their children create an atmosphere of
  and false
  and the children resent it.

31. Anger management is ultimately a function of
 

32. Spiritual insights are necessary for each child who
 

33. The process of teaching spiritual insights to a child is not complex, but it requires great
 

34. What instructions regarding our children does the Apostle Paul teach in Ephesians 6:4?
 

35. Truths about or
  or
  confronting can be woven into everyday communication as common circumstances arise.

36. The parent’s goal is not to force spiritual perfection but to keep
  thinking alive.

37. By encouraging
  about biblical truths their beliefs are less legalistic and more personally meaningful.

38. What words of wisdom does Solomon offer in Proverbs 29:15? 
 

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