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Anger Management at School, Home, Everywhere

March 26th, 2010 |

A teacher wrote me asking for counsel on anger management for students in school, in the classroom and elsewhere. I responded with three different aspects relating to anger problems. I introduced the topic as follows and said I would follow up with him in my next post.

(1) Short-term Solutions for everybody.

Ideas and techniques and better ways to do things

about anger: “Get the Angries Out.”

Some tips and techniques showing how to do things

better, that will help a student (and teacher) to behave

better and get rid of anger. And to stop yelling, scolding,

blaming, and punishing, which may stop anger at the

moment and will not help the student when he or she

is on their own. I give you more information next post.

(2) Long-term solutions for schools, teachers, students.

Dr. Merrill Harmin’s book, “Strategies to Inspire Active

Learning” (2002) can be found in some school libraries

and is available on Amazon.com. Every teacher should

have a copy of their own on their desk. It is a handbook

for daily use, not a theoretical textbook for future use.

If this book is read, studied and practiced (just a few

new strategies each week), great things do happen!

This is targeted to students becoming more involved

in their own learning, thus reducing boredom and apathy

and tending to produce fewer provocations for anger.

More detail in my next post.

(3) Specific Anger Removal for Individuals (“Tapping”)

This “Tapping” is a method to practice

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)

which is very effective for individuals who wish to learn how

to get rid of their own anger. Works for everybody: mothers,

fathers, teachers, counselors, children, students, etc.,anybody

who wants to learn how to get rid of their own anger. More in a

future blog post.

Doc Meek

South Jordan, Utah, USA; Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA

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Tags: anger, anger at home, anger management, anger problems, parental anger, student anger, teacher anger |

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Our negative beliefs tend to dictate our behavior

March 10th, 2010 |

Author: Doc Meek

Morty Lefkoe is a reputable practitioner who has helped numerous people improve their lives dramatically by helping them to change their negative or self-limiting beliefs. Now he has added a new helpful twist: you can change your personal meaning of something and your behavior, even if you don’t change your negative beliefs. Wow. Nice. I think they used to call it “will power” or “commitment.” :o) Still, nice to know I am not an automatic victim of my self-limiting beliefs, eh? Here is Morty’s blog on the subject:

What Really Determines How We Live Our Lives?

Blessings, Doc Meek

Posted in Learning Difficulties, learning solutions |

Tags: changing your mind, commitment, limiting beliefs, negative beliefs, self-limiting beliefs |

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