ABSTRACT

The most dangerous, frightening and destructive aspect of anger is the way some children’s anger escalates so rapidly that they appear to be totally out of control of this emotion. Imagine our ball of fire as having progressed to totally engulfing the child so that they can no longer see, hear or feel what is happening around them. All they can do is to try and get rid of this ball by kicking, screaming, hitting out

and one child said he had to splash his face and hands in cold water to try to cool down.