Top 10 Anger Management Techniques in Parenting

Parenting a child is not a childs job! At times, it becomes real hard to parent them. Your anger affects the way you parent. An ángry parent can behave inappropriately with his child and other family members. Anger takes away the rationale to differentiate good or bad. An angry parent can even reach to the extent of harming self and children (by yelling, spanking or physical violence). 
But anger has some damaging effects on the child as well: An angry parent can confuse the child and share their confidence in their own parents.
But while you may not be able to control your anger all the time, perhaps, managing your anger in a better way, channelizing your energy can help in solving some of the issues. Here are some anger management techniques.
1.  Identify what triggers your anger: First and foremost, identify your deepest emotional triggers. Ask yourself, what is it that is really bothering me? What’s the worst thing about it? And is it really worth my anger on my child? 
2.   Try to understand your child’s behaviour: Try to understand why at all the child behaved in that manner? Always remember the fact, the child who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways. There is usually a reason for a child's bad behaviour!
3.  He is a child. Treat him like a child: Your child doesn’t act out deliberately to make life difficult for you. He’s at an age when he can’t control his impulses and can’t focus his mind on a long list of chores.
4.   Use positive discipline: Whenever you want to disapprove your child’s behaviour, focus on the desired behaviour rather than focusing your child.
5.   Never punish your child in anger: Don’t let your anger result in harsh punishment. Take time to cool off instead of doing something you might regret. 
6. Talk it Out: Talk about your feelings to yourself to calm your mind or to another adult who understands or to the children, if they are old enough, tell them how you feel without blaming them!
7.Get some space: Go outside for a walk or a run. If you have very young children and no-one to mind them, take them with you.
8. Do whatever helps you unwind: Take a break. Think about what is most relaxing for you personally and engage in it whole heartedly. 
9. Always remain happy: One of the best things you can do to your children is to be happy yourselves. Think back to your own childhood. Were your parents happy? If so, wasn’t that a great source of strength to you? If not, wasn’t that a source of distress?
10. Learn from an earlier fit of anger: Use feelings of repentance and guilt of your earlier fit of anger to motivate yourself to avoid showing negative manifestations of your anger on your children. 
Develop a patient attitude with children. Cultivate an attitude that helps you parent without anger!