We can teach our kids that feelings are worth listening to, that everyone has them, and that emotions are a vital part of the human experience. In sharing these lessons, we provide children's first schooling in emotional literacy. Everyone, both parents and children, have feelings all of the time. Feelings are not right or wrong. How feelings are managed can be right or wrong.
Every child has a unique personality.
Some children have characteristics that make them easy to live with. Other children may be more challenging for parents. They may have characteristics such as being more demanding, impatient, emotionally explosive, energetic, or needing more care due to a physical or mental disability that can bring out a parent's anger. Through this understanding, a parent's anger about a child's behavior is diminished. The key is to view each child's uniqueness in a positive way through understanding and accepting who he or she is.