ABSTRACT
The metaphor of extreme weather is often helpful for children to express
their angry feelings and there are several worksheets with different ideas.
For example, we describe anger as being explosive or like a rumbling volcano
or an earthquake. There is a calm before a storm and a rainbow after the
thunder. There is a bolt of lightning and a thunderbolt, a bolt from the blue
or a bolt in the dark, and it is no good bolting the stable door after the horse
has gone. These are all metaphors to be explored, rather than bolting the
door and confining the child.
