Mr. Angry Face

I have been noticing lately that my Grandson was having a hard time expressing himself and would get frustrated, and even angry.

I ended up making a mask out of flour and water and we put on different faces , the happy face, the sad, face and the angry face.

With each face we would role play what it felt like to be happy and how our friends would respond to us.

For a while he was very content to put on the angry face and tried to scare everyone and push them around.

The happy face people wanted nothing to do with Mr. angry face. They ran away when he came around.

After awhile he started to understand that Mr. angry face did not have to many friends and he chose to put on the happy face and we danced and sang, and jumped around.

My grandson is five , and just learning ways to handle his emotions, but how about you? Do you still find that anger is your go to emotion. Do you use it to control people, or to get your way? Learning to re-frame the way you look at circumstances and putting events into proper perspective, will help you to step back from the emotion of anger. as you pause to breath and focus the energy you to can put on the happy face, tell yourself that this to will pass, and ask yourself what you could do to turn that energy into something more productive. Become familiar with your triggers and plan a reaction that stops you from going in that direction.   Remember the purpose for our emotions , they are tools to help us no when we need to adjust our thinking, and change our circumstances. It is our job to learn to manage our emotions.