Got Anger? Try Naming It To Tame ItNPR - Michaeleen DoucleffOver the past three years, I've had one major goal in my personal life: To stop being so angry. Anger has been my emotional currency. I grew up in an angry home. Door slamming and phone throwing were means
World News How Inuit Parents Raise Kids Without Yelling — And Teach Them To Control Anger : Goats and Soda : NPRNPR - Michaeleen Doucleff , Jane GreenhalghBack in the 1960s, a Harvard graduate student made a landmark discovery about the nature of human anger. At age 34, Jean Briggs traveled above the Arctic Circle and lived out on the tundra for 17 months.
World News Disciplining Kids Without Yelling: Readers Tell Us Their TricksNPR - Michaeleen DoucleffIs it possible to raise children without shouting, scolding — or even talking to kids with an angry tone? Last month, we wrote about supermoms up in the Arctic who pulled off this daunting task with ease.
Can Inuit Moms Help Me Tame My 3-Year-Old's Anger?NPR - Michaeleen DoucleffSix months ago, I found myself preparing for battle. I was lying in bed at 5:30 a.m., going over in my head how to handle the next encounter with my 3-year-old daughter, Rosy. Goodness knows, I love her
If You're Often Angry Or Irritable, You May Be DepressedNPR - Nell GreenfieldboyceRegistered nurse Ebony Monroe of Houston recently went through a period of being quick to anger about every little thing. She didn't realize then what it might mean for her health. "If you had told me
When Teens Threaten Violence, A Community Responds With CompassionNPR - Rhitu Chatterjee , Rebecca DavisPsychologist John Van Dreal has spent almost 30 years working with troubled kids. Still, it's always unsettling to get the kind of phone call he received one morning eight years ago as he was on his way
Columbine High School School Shooters: What's Their Path To Violence?NPR - Rhitu ChatterjeeIt's hard to empathize with someone who carries out a school shooting. The brutality of their crimes is unspeakable. Whether the shootings were at Columbine, at Sandy Hook, or in Parkland, they have traumatized
Anger Can Be Contagious — Here's How To Stop The SpreadNPR - Allison AubreyEven if you're not aware of it, it's likely that your emotions will influence someone around you today. This can happen during our most basic exchanges, say on your commute to work. "If someone smiles
He Was Imprisoned And Losing His Mind. 'Anna Karenina' Saved HimNPR - Gregory Warner , Qieer Wang, John Poole , Louis WeeksMohamed Barud was a 31-year-old newlywed when he was sentenced to life in prison in Somalia. This was 1981. Somalia was ruled by a military dictator, Siad Barre. And Mohamed's crime, if you can call it
From Fruit Fly To Stink Eye: Searching For Anger's Animal RootsNPR - Jon HamiltonFor comedian Lewis Black, anger is a job. Black is famous for his rants about stuff he finds annoying or unfair or just plain infuriating. Onstage, he often looks ready for a fight. He leans forward. shouts.
How To Demand A Medical Breakthrough: Lessons From The AIDS FightNPR - Nurith AizenmanIn the summer of 1985, Mike Petrelis was savoring life as young, openly gay man in New York City. He'd landed a cool job working for a film publicist who mostly handled foreign art films. He'd found an
'You Get Paid For Doing Therapy': Stand-Up Comedians On AngerNPR - Elizabeth BlairVeteran comedians know all about the funny side of anger. The late George Carlin wrote an entire bit called "Free-Floating Hostility." Jerry Seinfeld once declared in the Los Angeles Times that "All comedy
The Power Of Martin Luther King Jr.'s AngerNPR - Nell GreenfieldboyceWhen Martin Luther King, Jr. was in high school, he won an oratorical contest sponsored by the Negro Elks. He and a beloved teacher were returning home in triumph, riding on a bus, when some white passengers
