Hello everyone and welcome to the Your Village podcast, Parenting Beyond Discipline,

the place to learn about all things parenting and get your questions answered.

I'm your host, Erin Royer.

Today I'm answering a couple of questions that are very similar and they're about dealing

with anger in young children.

In both these cases, both of the children are five-year-old boys. So I'm going to read both of

the questions first before going into the answer. The second question is more involved. So after

giving some tips on dealing with the anger to help both of these parents work with their boys

on that, I will then

delve deeper into the issues in the second question. But first, Jamie writes,

Hi, Aaron, I love your podcast and I look forward to listening to it every week. My son is five,

and over the course of the past several months, he is displaying more and more angry behavior.

It ranges from crying when he doesn't

get a snack he wants to blowing up and hitting kicking at the wall. I would love your advice.

I should add he displays these behaviors at home 99% of the time. I feel like I'm not alone in this

as I have had other friends whose five-year-olds are acting out in some way as well.

Thanks for your help. And Jamie, no, you're not alone. This is very common. And I'm glad to see he's

kicking the wall and not a person. So that's a really solid sign also that it is more common for kids

to act out more at home rather than at school because they're more comfortable in

their home environment and with their family than they are around their friends in school.

So they're able to contain their emotions, usually more at school and in those situations.

So it tells me that he does have some ability to control this.

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