Anger management for teenagers.

That was my topic for the last week parents' meeting. The topic was chosen by me because, of late, I noticed a growing trend among my students to be provoked to the chore at the slightest remark on their exam marks.

I am shocked to note that students these days can't tolerate their teachers and parents.

I think in the contemporary society, teenagers are often forced to be self-protective. The daily challenges in schools, on the street, inside the malls, the youth and children face myriad obstacles. Overcoming all of them makes their life stressed and they quickly lose their tolerance level.

If anger is not controlled, it can take over the life of the individual. We all witness scenes of yelling and screaming, jostle people around indecently when people are in anger.

I am an advocate of self-discipline. I firmly believe that anger can be controlled by constant reminders about how they look when in anger. Even a very beautiful face turns ugly when contorted in anger.

Still, parents have a role to play in shaping up their children. They cannot wash up their hands blaming the society, which is really made up of you and me.

What is anger?

“Treat anger like gold; spend it wisely or not at all”. This is a proverb that I use. I neither spend my anger nor the gold that I buy from time to time.

But, what do you think of the proverb? Isn't wisely said?

Have you tried to question yourself on why you get angry in the first place? When we feel our pride is attacked or when we don't allow others to differ from us, we get angry.

This is the resistance we have to let go. We resist almost every conceivable situation if that is not in line with our concept of right and wrong. We firmly believe that we are the only person that is always right and whomsoever disagrees with us, we resist them and that leads to anger and frustration and eventually to more violent reactions from us.

Unsuppressed anger invariably leads to bad words and finally to violence.