What can we do to control our anger?

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What can we do to control our anger?

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Different things work for different people. For me, just stopping whatever Im doing at the moment, taking a deep breath and thinking about how much worse something could have been usually works. For example, the other day, I went to use the bathroom... gone for maybe minutes. When I walked back into my room, my son had gotten into the cabinet and thrown everything on the floor, and managed to rip my school books into about pieces. Since I dont have the money to replace those, I was furious. brbrI didnt yell or scream or go off the deepend. I calmly told my son he was very bad, put him in his playpen for a timeout, and proceeded to clean up. As I was, I started thinking how much worse the whole thing could have been. What if he had pulled the cabinet over on himself? What if he had chewed on the paper and choked? What if he had ripped something priceless like his birth certificate?brbrI guess what Im trying to say, is before we get mad, we should look for the good in the situation, and realize that its probably not as bad as it seems at the moment.