A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger

by Eliane Whitehouse, Warwick Pudney

A Volcano in My Helping Children to Handle Anger presents a clear and effective approach to helping children and adults alike understand and deal constructively with children's anger. Using easy to understand yet rarely taught skills for anger management, including how to teach communication of emotions, A Volcano in My Tummy offers engaging, well-organized activities which help to overcome the fear of children's anger which many adult care-givers experience. By carefully distinguishing between anger the feeling, and violence the behavior, this accessible little book, primarily created for ages 6 to thirteen, helps to create an awareness of anger, enabling children to relate creatively and harmoniously at critical stages in their development. Through activities, stories, articles, and games designed to allow a multi-subject, developmental approach to the topic at home and in school, A Volcano in My Tummy gives us the tools we need to put aside our problems with this all-too-often destructive emotion, and to have fun while we're at it. Elaine Whitehouse is a teacher, family court and private psychotherapist, mother of two and leader of parenting skills workshops for eight years. Warwick Pudney is a teacher and counsellor with ten years experience facilitating anger management, abuser therapy and men's change groups, as well as being a father of three. Both regularly conduct workshops.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

80 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1996

Reviews

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is definitely geared more for classroom use than family use, and it does get a little too self-esteem-ish for my taste at times, but it has offered some very useful frameworks for helping kids understand and appropriately respond to their anger. I've done the first lesson with my kids, and it seemed to go well, and I plan to do a few more with them.

[Daniel Galvin · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's good for anger

[Janet · Rating 2 out of 5]

A somewhat useful resource. More geared toward school or similar group settings, rather than at home. Has some good ideas in it, but seems dated, and some of the exercises and worksheets are awkward. I think it would serve more as in idea book for designing your own exercises rather than using these as is.

[Kerrie Durkin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good for teachers/assistants PSHE classes or small groups with anger/anxiety issues.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

I Have used the book many times and it helps some children with their feelings.

[Jobiska (Cindy) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a clear and easy-to-use book that includes specific exercises for working with groups of kids. With a little thought, one could adopt the ideas to working with a single child, or at least formulating discussions with him or her. The back cover is somewhat misleading as it indicates the exercises can be used for 6-15 year olds and I certainly feel that from the time my child was 12 on (or perhaps younger) I would have had to work to adapt the exercises upward in complexity.

[Makele Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a really good book if you have a child that gets angry all the time and easily. Very good book.

[Andrea Labonte · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome activities in the book to help with anger.

[Shaymaq · Rating 5 out of 5]

A simple guide for parents and teachers of children with anger problems