Pudney Warwick and Eliane Whitehouse - A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger A Resource Book for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers
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Does your child have a volcano in their tummy?
Pros
Great hands-on information for dealing with anger in children.
Cons
I would love to see a follow up workbook with more lessons.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
While I read it to help a child with extreme anger, I would recommend this book to any parent or teacher to help children understand and deal with this emotion.
Being a theraputic foster parent is very rewarding. It's also very challenging. Most foster kiddos, regardless of other issues, carry quite a bit of anger and rightly so. Our foster daughter is no exception.
For this reason, I have been reading a lot of books lately with behavioural themes, anger included. And while general knowledge that the books bring offers insight and power, hands on concepts and experiments are much, much more effective in day to day operations of a house with an angry child.
The Book
A Volcano in my Tummy written by Eliane Whitehouse and Warwick Pudney is that hands-on workbook that offers insight, as well as practical practices for easing and dealing with anger in kids.
The book begins with a little insight into anger itself as well as the "rules" of anger. For instance, it's made very clear in the beginning of the book that anger is okay. Anger is okay. It's okay to feel anger, to talk about anger, to express anger in an appropriate way. It's not okay to hurt yourself and other people, animals or things when you are angry.
This beginning section of the book also covers tips for parents and teachers dealing with an angry child including a curriculum for teachers to follow and tips on integrating it into their current classroom schedule.
The rest of the book is exercises in the form of lessons. Each lesson offers an age level, teaching strategy, key concepts, materials needed and the procedure to follow.
Lesson One talks about having a volcano in your tummy versus an explosion in your head and includes a picture that the child can color/draw in of a faceless child. As the child completes their worksheet, the adult talks about how anger is universal and that we all get angry. She might show pictures of people with different emotions, letting the child talk about the different emotions they see.
There are 25 lessons that go through the child's personal anger, to dealing with anger in other people, to coping with the anger in the world and making a change.
The Authors
While this is the first book in English that I could find for either author, the writing style is reader, non-psychiatrist-term friendly. I would read more books by both authors were they to be published.
Easy to understand, any parent or teacher can pick this book up and immediately begin to make a difference in the life and emotions of a child.
For this reason, I have been reading a lot of books lately with behavioural themes, anger included. And while general knowledge that the books bring offers insight and power, hands on concepts and experiments are much, much more effective in day to day operations of a house with an angry child.
The Book
A Volcano in my Tummy written by Eliane Whitehouse and Warwick Pudney is that hands-on workbook that offers insight, as well as practical practices for easing and dealing with anger in kids.
The book begins with a little insight into anger itself as well as the "rules" of anger. For instance, it's made very clear in the beginning of the book that anger is okay. Anger is okay. It's okay to feel anger, to talk about anger, to express anger in an appropriate way. It's not okay to hurt yourself and other people, animals or things when you are angry.
This beginning section of the book also covers tips for parents and teachers dealing with an angry child including a curriculum for teachers to follow and tips on integrating it into their current classroom schedule.
The rest of the book is exercises in the form of lessons. Each lesson offers an age level, teaching strategy, key concepts, materials needed and the procedure to follow.
Lesson One talks about having a volcano in your tummy versus an explosion in your head and includes a picture that the child can color/draw in of a faceless child. As the child completes their worksheet, the adult talks about how anger is universal and that we all get angry. She might show pictures of people with different emotions, letting the child talk about the different emotions they see.
There are 25 lessons that go through the child's personal anger, to dealing with anger in other people, to coping with the anger in the world and making a change.
The Authors
While this is the first book in English that I could find for either author, the writing style is reader, non-psychiatrist-term friendly. I would read more books by both authors were they to be published.
Easy to understand, any parent or teacher can pick this book up and immediately begin to make a difference in the life and emotions of a child.
