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Do you easily get angry with your children?

Parents who want to work on their issues to improve the day-to-day lives of their children deserve respect. Littsint is a service providing free materials for parents who want to work on anger management. The content and tools have been developed by Steinar Sunde, a specialist psychologist at the Norwegian Family Counselling Centre.

Here’s his advice:

1. Take responsibility

If you feel you want to shout or grab the child, take responsibility, and walk away from the situation.

2. Remember it’s normal

Remind yourself that your child’s behaviour is completely normal for their age. It’s not a question of the child having no respect or you not being up to the job.

3. Talk to the child

Once you’ve calmed down, go back and talk to the child as you would want them to talk to you.

4. You’re the role model

Remember that you are first and foremost a role model, who teaches the child acceptable ways to talk to one another at home.

Littsint

Parents who want to work with themselves to improve the day-to-day lives of their children deserve respect. Littsint.no is a website for parents who want to work on anger management. The aim is to reach out with psychological knowledge and a method that enables parents to help themselves to create a more secure and predictable daily life for their children.

Help

If you would like more help with anger management, family counsellors in Norway have been trained in the model presented in the e-book. Norwegian Family Counselling Centres (Familievernkontor) offer free sessions for parents, and can be contacted directly without a referral. 

Where to get help

Anger management app

You can download a free anger management app from littsint.no, Google Play or App Store. The app is a self-help tool that builds on experiences from sessions with 800 parents who wanted help to improve how they manage anger towards their children.

Download app

Littsint e-book

You can download the free e-book “Guide to Anger Management for Parents” from littsint.no. The e-book contains 10 video clips that present a well-documented anger management model in a concrete way.

Download e-book

The website, e-book and anger management app have been developed by Steinar Sunde, specialist psychologist and cognitive therapist at the Family Counselling Centre in Molde, with support from the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs.

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