RULES FOR GETTING YOUR MADS OUT

• Check your tummy, jaws and your fists. See if the mads are coming.
• Breathe! Blow your mad out.
• Get your control. Feel good about getting your control.
• Stop and think; make a good choice.
• People are not to be hurt with your hands, feet or voice.
  You Can't hurt people just because you are mad.
• Remember to use your firm words, not your fists.
• Use a strong voice and talk your mads out. Say "I feel mad when you ____."
• Sometimes you need to take a time out to get your control back.
• Take yourself off to a safe place and talk to yourself.
• Pat yourself on the back for getting your mad out nicely.

This information is from the book, The Mad Family Gets Their Mads Out: Fifty Things Your Family Can Say and Do to Express Anger Constructively ($9.95 +$3 s&h from Talk, Trust and Feel Therapeutics * 1120 Buchanan Avenue * Charleston, IL 61920 * 217-345-2982)). Text and illustrations are copyright 1995 Lynne Namka.

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