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Anger management: How parents can better deal with their children’s tantrums

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While some kids can fly off the handle at the smallest provocation, there are also those who express their anger in less obvious ways, such as sulking.

Some kids fly off the handle at the smallest provocation, while others express their anger in less obvious ways, such as sulking.

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SINGAPORE – Five-year-old Xavier marches up to his teacher and fumes: “I am angry with Tyler (not their real names) because he called me stupid.”

To which Tyler says in defence: “I did not call him ‘stupid’. I said, ‘Stop it.’”

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