TPP 389: Ginger Whitson on Helping Kids Navigate Feeling Angry
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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When a baby is born, they have the capacity to feel mad, sad, glad, and scared. So we are born with a capacity for anger. And the reason that's important is because I think a lot of young kids get the message very quickly that being angry makes them bad as a child, or it's bad to be angry. So I like to make sure that kids know at the very beginning. Anger is a perfectly normal, natural, human way of feeling, and that it's what we do with our anger that counts.
I'm Debbie Rieber, and welcome to Tilled Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. Today we're diving into a topic that will probably resonate with every parent: helping kids navigate the complex emotion of anger. And to explore this critical topic, I'm excited to welcome back the insightful Ginger Whitson, who will share her expertise. While we discuss her book, How to Be Angry: Strategies to Help Kids Express Anger Constructively. We know that anger is a normal, natural, and physiological experience that all human beings are born with the capacity to feel. Yet many neurodivergent kids struggle with knowing how to experience and express their anger constructively, and they're in need of strategies and non-shaming guidance rather than what so often happens, they're punished for their behavior.
So that's what we get into in this episode: why anger in children can be so uncomfortable for adults to tolerate or respond to, strategies for teaching children alternatives to aggression, violence, or past. Of behavior and instead be assertive, the importance of adults stepping in as calm presences to help regulate a child's emotions and foster healthy coping mechanisms and more. Ginger Whitson, known in her author credits as Signa Whitson, was on the show a few months back talking about bullying. It's a great conversation. Definitely go back and listen to that if you missed it. You can find it at tildeparenting.com/slash session three fifty-three. Ginger is a licensed social worker and international educator on topics related to child and adolescent mental health.
She's the author of seven books, including the one we're talking about today, which again is called How to Be Angry.
Why is anger a normal, natural emotion for children?
Ginger is also the Dean of Students at a K-8 school in Northeastern Massachusetts and the COO of the Life Space Crisis Intervention Institute. By equipping our kids with these tools, we can truly support their emotional development and help them navigate their big feelings more effectively. I hope you enjoyed this wisdom-packed episode with Ginger. Hey Ginger, welcome back to the podcast. Hi, thanks
for having me back. I'm so happy to be here again.
Yeah, I'm excited to talk about anger. I've never been so excited to talk about anger before. Last time you were on the show, we talked about bullying and in the back of my mind I wanted to get to your work on anger management skills for kids, but we didn't get there. So actually as I started preparing for this, I'm like, oh my gosh, there's so much we can talk about here. I'm so glad we're dedicating an entire episode to it.
Yeah, me too. It's a big subject and it's super powerful in the lives of I was gonna say our kids, but but everyone, but especially for kids to learn how to manage something that's so powerful for them.
Yeah, absolutely. Would you just take a few minutes to introduce yourself specifically in the context of this work that you've done on emotional regulation and anger management for kids?
I am someone who has spent my career working in mental health with children, adolescents, and families.
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