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There was yelling, screaming, doors slamming and objects whirling by. Was it a tornado? A hurricane? Surely, there must have been a natural disaster to account for the reasons why my home was a disastor zone.
There wasn’t. The cause for the yelling and screaming was no other than my sweet four year old daughter.
I told her to clean her room and her angry switch got turned on. In the midst of her anger, she took her (month old) glasses off of her face and snapped them in half!!!!
Now, it wasn’t just her who was really angry. I was there myself.
It was great timing that I received a book in the mail for children about feeling angry just days before that. So, I picked up the book and read it with her.
In Teaching Christ’s Children About Feeling Angry, we are introduced to a little girl named Tayniesha (Tay).
We meet her family and learn what makes her angry. I really enjoyed that Tay got angry about real stuff. The book described that sometimes when she’s mad, she wants to hit someone or throw a toy.
Then, we learn what the Bible says about anger. There are several versus that are listed that describe what God has to say about feeling angry and what to do about it.
Tay explains different examples about how to respond when feeling angry.
One of the things I liked the most about this book is how the emotion of anger isn’t dismissed as something bad. Rather, it explains how anger is a normal human emotion to certain events. All too often, I find children’s books about anger to gloss over the reasons of WHY and focus on what to do. I really like that Teaching Christ’s Children About Feeling Angry covers both.
By the end of the book, we both were much calmer. Eventually, her room got cleaned and I was able to order new glasses and we both learned something about anger. We’ve read this book multiple times since then, and I’m sure that will continue for quite a while into the future.
If you are looking for a Christ centered book for children about anger, this is it.
Teaching Christ’s Children About Feeling Angry is authored by Corine Hyman and illustrated by Almar Denso. You can find Teaching Christ’s Children About Feeling Angry on Amazon in paperback and kindle versions.
I was presented with the opportunity to review this book at no cost. I was not required to leave a good review, only an honest one. The review is my personal opinion. I was not compensated in any other way by the author or publisher.
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Wow, you seem liked such a good and patient mother that you were able to not get angry at your daughter when she broke her glasses. I think your daughter learned a lot by the way you acted.
Thank you so much for your kind comment!