Emotional control, particularly controlling anger and aggressiveness, is the most common emotional problem faced by today’s children.  Physiological reactions to emotions are pre-programmed in the brain, but parenting techniques can teach children to manage those responses.   Following, are techniqes for helping children with the thinking and the emotional parts of the brain.

1.  Practice controlling temper.  It is not enough to have children talk about what they should do when they are upset, they must actually practice controlling their temper to target both the emotional and the thinking parts of their brains.  This …