If you’ve been trying to teach your child to be kind, honest, and polite, it can be really frustrating and heart wrenching when he disappoints you. He swipes some coins from your dresser and swears he didn’t. He teases a boy at the bus stop. He throws books when he gets angry. There’s no need to panic because a child’s moral growth is an ongoing process, and all  kids slip up from time to time. You still have a tremendous influence on your child’s behavior.

If your child gets angry easily, has a hard time calming down once upset and interrupts  and has trouble waiting for his turn, here’s how to help:

• Do your best to be patient.
• Acknowledge how tough it is to maintain self-control.
• Teach him to recognize his own feelings of anger, and encourage “self talk” to avoid an out burst.
• Ask your child to come up with a  list of things to do when he feels himself getting out of control.
• Look for examples of people losing control on TV or out in public. Discuss how it makes others feel and what else could have been done.

If he doesn’t understand how his misbehavior affects others here’s how to help:

• Point out the impact of his behavior on others.
• Require reparations.
• Praise your child when he admits a mistake or apologizes.
• Role-play so that your child can imagine himself in the victim’s place
• Ask him what types of things people with a conscience do, such as keep a promise or give back extra change.

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