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How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger

How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger

Anger is a part of life. We can’t avoid it, we shouldn’t stuff it, and we can’t make it go away. Kids need help learning how to manage their anger. This book speaks directly to kids and offers strategies they can start using immediately. Blending tips and ideas with jokes and funny cartoons, it guides kids to understand that anger is normal and can be expressed in many ways—some healthy, some not. It teaches them how to recognize anger in themselves and others, how to deal with situations and emotions (loneliness, guilt, frustration, fear) that lead to or mask anger, and how to deal with the anger they feel. Young readers learn that violence is not acceptable and there are better, safer ways to resolve conflicts. They also discover what to do when people around them are angry, how to get help, and how to locate other resources (books, hotlines, school groups) when they need more support.

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4 Stars How the Take the Grrr Out of Anger
Excellent book. My child is 9 years old and not only finds this book entertaining enough to go back to for help when she’s feeling upset and angry, but has ear marked and highlighted several places she finds particularly helpful to her. It has short and to the point advise and humorous illustrations that a child can both relate to and understand; and through example, shows them where they are on controlling their own responses and gives them plenty of ideas on how to improve them. I definitely recommend this book to anyone dealing with a child who is struggling with identifying and controlling their emotions.

5 Stars Great Anger Handbook
Wonderful explanations of what anger is, how to recognize the feelings, how to express the feeling in a healthier way and how to problem solve. My daughter loved the examples of dialogue as they were accurate samples of what she deals with on a daily basis with her peers at school. I appreciated the fact that we could pick it up and read any chapter without reading the entire book. My daughter has also benefited by reading a book called Angry Octopus: A Relaxation Story. She feels empowered by both of these books and is now implementing taking a deep breath to calm her anger just as the octopus does in Angry Octopus. It is a winning combination.

2 Stars It’s a cute book . . .
This is a very cute book, but to find the time and place to sit down with an angry kid hasn’t come about just yet, it’s one of those that I’ll have to read and then take the ideas to the kids.

Definitely a book I’d suggest though . . . I just haven’t gotten a chance to use it the way I’d like yet!

5 Stars Great book for little kids with anger issues!
I have been using this book to help my two sons, ages 8 & 11, understand and control thier tempers. I have read several of these types of books to them and I feel that this one has been the most effective. The book is written with an appealing age appropriate sense of humor and the illustrations are fun for them to look at. This book contains all of the important themes about anger but is presented in a way that appeals to kids. I highly recommend this book to parents of kindergarten through seventh grade kids that have anger issues. Thanks for a great book!

4 Stars How to take the GRR out of Anger
This book gives good suggestions. I really like the high lights it gives on summary pages which can be used for teaching tools.

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Dancing in the Moonlight

Dancing in the Moonlight

Lieutenant Magdalena Cruz had come home-And though all she wanted was to be alone, infuriatingly handsome Dr. Jake Dalton-of the enemy Daltons-wouldn’t cooperate. And she needed him to, because the walls around her heart were dangerously close to crumbling every time he came near.-

Jake had spent most of his life trying to get closer to Maggie, with little to show for it. But she was the woman he’d always wanted, and no injury in the world could change that. Now if only he could convince her that the woman who stood before him was beautiful, desirable, whole-and meant to be his.-

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SLC Punk

SLC Punk

In the early 1980’s Stevo and Heroin Bob are the only two dedicated punks in conversative Salt Lake City.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-APR-2007
Media Type: DVD

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5 Stars THE BEST MOVIE I EVER SAW IN HIGH SCHOOL!
This is the best movie I ever saw in High School. 80′ punk was something I never saw but after hanging out with emo kids in 00′, my freshman year, was something I adored. Emo kids loved this movie for something I couldn’t reach but I loved this movie for what it was, a glorified coming of age tale of adolecence that couldn’t be touched without a ten-foot pole. I partied like there wasn’t a tomorrow nor a dirrerence of being one after which, but this movie served a greater meaning in my adulthood, mistake the future as the present and forsake the present as something of the past.

3 Stars Fun, but really conservative in punk drag…
“SLC Punk” is a shallow good time disguised as a sociological study. While seeming to laude the tenets of both anarchy and punk rock, the film is profoundly conservative and insulting once you dig a little deeper beneath the surface. Lillard is great, even during the obnoxious “speaking-directly-to-the-camera” portions, but what stands out is an underlying contempt for both punk specifically, and rebellion generally. “I didn’t sell out, I bought in.” That perhaps best sums up the sensibility behind “SLC Punk.” Turn off your brain and it’s all cool — otherwise, you will want to hunt down and kill James Merendino.

4 Stars Poignant and Full of Contradictions
SLC Punk is about a couple of punk/anarchists stuck in the middle of conservative, Mormon-dominated Salt Lake City. This is a pretty good film, as long as one bears in mind that the kids in it represent more of a “lifestyle anarchism” than a political philosophy, and as Stevo (the main character and narrator) self-consciously admits at several points, their actions and attitudes often stand as a flagrant contradiction of the punk ethos they espouse. While the movie does not accurately portray the “authentic” punk or anarchist philosophy, it does accurately and poignantly portray a widespread, popular bastardization of it, so it still creates relevant social commentary. As a coming-of-age story, it is poignant and affecting, particularly as tragedy descends upon Heroin Bob, ironically named for his aversion to needles and drugs.

Throughout the movie is an undercurrent of dissonance between an anti-oppression philosophy and the characters’ aimless,testosterone-fueled adventures. While Stevo and his friends rail against “fascism,” they glorify violence and act in ways that perpetuate the “macho” dominant culture. Fights are a way of life, and in one scene, Stevo (who claims earlier that “nobody owns anybody”) catches the woman he likes with someone else and proceeds to beat the daylights out of the rival, who he accuses of “invading his territory.” A less obvious irony is Stevo’s…well…patriotism! He goes to great lengths to extol the superiority of America’s punk scene, in one instance harassing a singer from the UK who’s been roughed up by Stevo and other patriotic punks.

An excellent soundtrack adds another layer to the realism of the film.

3 Stars descent movie
This movie is ok, not gonna win any awards. There is a lot of talk about punk posers in this movie. This is not about real punk rock. Which is fitting, because it’s about posers. It’s entertaining nonetheless.

5 Stars Much more than I expected.
This movie is proof that you should never judge an item by its appearance. When I first saw the cover of this DVD, I groaned, thinking it would be clich