A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger

Recommended to me by a friend who is a teacher and specialises in Early Year Learning. It's a fabulous book with lots of activities you can do with your children as individuals or in groups and contains lots of useful tips on how to deal with different situations. Very easy to read and understand, and has activities for 6 to 13 year olds.

I purchased this book when I got a divorce. I knew it would be hard on my 5 year old and I wanted to give her as much support as I possibly could. This book was amazing in helping my daughter work thru issues. I am happy to say that she is fairly well adjusted and give this book partial credit. She is now 8 and this books still sits on her bookshelf for whenever she may need it.

This has been awesome for my daughter. Her therapist and I have been going through it with her and it’s really been helping her.

A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger While this book does have some universal information that is useful, the primary objective seems to be aimed at class room environment for 6 to 10 year olds. I ordered this book when my boy was 3.5. So I couldn't make use of the lessons and activities. When my son gets a bit older it might be helpful even just at home. I read the book and it helped me think about my own anger and maybe gave me some ammo for dealing with his anger. But a better book I found was "What to do when your temper flares". That book gave us images of anger that were tangible. For example it likened allowing anger to run rampant is like driving a car. You have to learn how to drive and you have to learn how to handle anger. Even tho my boy is too young to drive he understood the concept immediately. This other book also says: It isn't what happens that makes you mad it's what you THINK about what happened that determines how you feel. In a group setting the lessons would be combined with class discussions but they don't lend themselves well to story time reading material. It isn't a bad book it just doesn't suit our needs. If you are a teacher or home schooler this might be just the thing.

As a play therapist, I needed something to help me work effectively with angry children. It was referred to me by a co-worker so I ordered it. The price was right and the contents was absolutely just what I wanted, needed, and oh so glad I have it. The lessons are short, easy to use with children, and the activities keep the children engaged in therapy. I love it. Amazing how quick the book shipped, it was brand new, packed really well,and this is how shopping should be.

I bought this book to help with my four year old and the introduction was great, however the book is really more useful for older kids. In my opinion this book is much more useful for kids 6 and up and for for educators in particular. I will save it for later. It just doesn't give me enough tools to use right now which is why I bought it.

I was looking for a good resource for working with children experiencing excessive anger. This is a great little book.

I've used A Volcano in my Tummy for the past 6 years with youth ages 5 to 13 and it is a great resource. It uses language that children and teens can understand. A very effective and affordable resource for working with youth who have anger issues. They all love these fun activities.

This is a great guidebook on how to teach children to properly channel anger without breaking things, being nasty to others, or harming others. Lots of great stories and fun activities for kids to engage in ~ Good directions for the Adults running the show on how to best direct the exercises. If you have a child, or adult friend who has trouble with anger, this is a great book!!

I bought this book to read through for myself. It comes from a point of view of a teacher or parent helping their child/ren with anger but I found it helpful myself as well. Very plain English and very easy to absorb.

As a newly qualified teacher within special educational needs, I ordered this so I help a student who was finding their anger difficult to control. This book came with lesson plans and templates as well as tips on how to deliver the lesson. I found it great use when working in secondary mainstream and even use it not that I’ve moved into Primary SEN.

There are lots of tasks and examples in this book to help parents, carers, teachers and anyone involved with children, how to accept and manage their anger.

Great book to read to k - grade 3 if you have an autistic, super hyper or compulsive student. Works great as a team building activity, has great exercises and strategies for school as well as home. Can also use as an analogy during class volcano thematic.