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What to Do When Your Teen is Angry

#581 – Student Story: Joey

with host Mark Gregston

When your teen blows up and acts disrespectfully, it takes every ounce of self-control to hold back and not react! But how should you handle anger and outbursts of rage?

This weekend on Parenting Today’s Teens, Mark Gregston helps parents manage disrespectful behavior while dealing with their teens’ emotional issues.

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5 Things to Know about Anger

#496 – Student Story: Dean

with host Mark Gregston

You can’t stop your teen from getting angry any more than you can stop a volcano from exploding! But there are steps you can take to channel that anger in a healthy way.

This weekend on Parenting Today’s Teens, Mark Gregston discusses five principles for dealing with anger that deflect drama—and lead to peace.

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Dealing With Teen Anger

Angry teen Anger in your teenager can take on many faces. It can be a seething anger kept quietly below the surface, or a tidal wave unleashed on everyone around them. Anger can manifest itself in a covert refusal to comply with your household rules or wishes, or it can lead your teenager to outwardly undermine their own future or even strike out in violence.

Anger in teenagers usually comes from some unmet need or heart-longing. Such “wants” can be immature and selfish; like wanting more material things. Or the more complicated want for control and independence. But these can also be a smokescreen for deeper wants, like the want for love, acceptance, or even clearly defined rules to live by. Or, it can be a want for life to be the way it was before a major event took place, like the breakup of your family, the loss of innocence, or a betrayal. Anger can also come from the want to not be ridiculed or bullied or the want to be “normal” as defined by today’s teen culture. Continue reading “Dealing With Teen Anger”