Seeing Red: An Anger Management and Anti-Bullying Curriculum for Kids

Anger management is one of [the] crucial skills and Seeing Red is a wonderful step by step program to teach children how to do it.
— David Walsh, PH.D., President, National Institute on Media and the Family

…everyone gets angry and it is a normal feeling. This curriculum helps [students] understand different and more positive ways of expressing their anger — Leslie Colerin, School Social Worker, Anne Sullivan Communication Center

Anger is a natural human emotion, but if it isn’t managed properly its effects can be devastating. Seeing Red is a curriculum designed to help elementary and middle-school aged students better understand their anger so they can make healthy and successful choices and build strong relationships. Designed especially for use with small groups, this completely revised and updated edition guides facilitators in supporting children and teens as they build social and leadership skills and enhance their self-esteem.

Key concepts and activities include:

Finding healthy ways to deal with provocation and avoiding losing control
Spotting triggers and taking responsibility for mistakes
Identifying feelings, learning steps to control anger and exploring consequences
A comprehensive anti-bullying component, complete with cutting-edge material specific to cyber-bullying and social media.

Seeing Red’s unique group process enables participants to learn from and empower one another through role playing, helping them to identify associated feelings and recognize negative behaviors. Each session includes objectives, a list of supplies, background notes and preparation tasks for the leader, a warm-up activity, an explanation of the various learning activities, and a closing activity. See for yourself why Seeing Red remains one of the most highly-regarded resources among professionals in the field of children’s anger management.

…offers interactive activities to bring about discussion on a very serious topic, and does so in a fun and effective manner. Each lesson builds upon the others, creating a comprehensive and thorough curriculum that fosters learning and an understanding of anger as an emotion, and that it is how we deal with anger that makes a difference.
— Julie Neitzel Carr, Resolution and Prevention Program, YWCA of Minneapolis

Jennifer Simmonds is Lead Program Coordinator at Fairview’s Youth Grief Services and the author of Children in Change.