By A. Scott Walton
Last week, our first-grader came home from charter school with a swelling knot on his head the size of a Titleist Pro-V1.
How exactly he got pushed into a support pole on the playground's monkey bars remains a mystery. He's acted like a reluctant witness for the prosecution when asked to explain how the girl (whose name he only mumbles) ambushed him after she was "kicked out" of a group assembling cedar chip mountains. He talks fast, in evasive terms.
Perhaps I'm violating the "What happens on the playground stays on the playground" ethos by even asking.
If that's the case, what parent couldn't use timely advice to help prevent, quell, or resolve incidents of angry outbursts their kids play a part in?
A recent report by Parenting magazine reminds us that, "The way kids express anger evolves as much as they do". And the article, shared by CNN.com, offers toddler-to-tween tips about communication skills that concerned parents should practice at home and encourage for confrontations that occur at school.
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