ONLINE COURSE · AGES 4–12

Practical support for big feelings

Anger management
for kids.

Understanding Anger, Choosing Calm

Help your child notice anger, take a safe pause, and practise a better next step. An online course with young characters and everyday situations for ages 4–12.

One-time purchase · All two age paths included.
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PRACTICAL ANGER MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Help your child understand anger and choose safer actions

Angry feelings can show up during a difficult task, a disagreement, or an unfair moment. Work through short lessons together and practise one useful skill at a time.

  • Recognise anger triggers and early body clues.
  • Practise a safe pause and comfortable calming tools.
  • Speak up with clear requests and respectful boundaries.
  • Work through playground, school, gaming and sibling conflicts.
  • Repair mistakes and build a personal calm plan.

Anger management activities for every age

Choose a story path that fits your child’s stage. One course includes both.

Caregiver supporting a child

4–7 · Little steps

Adult-led stories, pointing, drawing and simple practice.

Two school-age children together

8–12 · Skill builders

School, friendship, sibling and gaming situations, with adult check-ins.

10 SECTIONS · 43 LESSONS · SELF-PACED

What is inside the course?

01

Meet your calm crew

A welcoming start, a trusted adult, and a plan that fits your age.

Explore lessons
  1. Welcome to your anger skills course
02

Your brain and big feelings

Understand the alarm, the need underneath it, and the next safe move.

Explore lessons
  1. Anger is a signal
  2. What might I need?
  3. Meet your alarm and your coach
  4. Story lab: pause the brain alarm
  5. Mission check: signal, need, choice
03

Notice your response patterns

Explore habits without labels and practise another way.

Explore lessons
  1. Big, quiet, and clear responses
  2. Story lab: when the reaction gets too big
  3. Story lab: feelings need a safe voice
  4. How often, how strong, how long?
  5. Ten patterns you can change
  6. Mission check: choose another pattern
04

Catch the early clues

Use body clues, a feelings meter, and a quick needs check.

Explore lessons
  1. Become a clue detective
  2. Check your feelings meter
  3. HALT: what needs care?
  4. Mission check: catch it early
05

Speak up and stay respectful

Build clear boundaries, fair disagreements, and useful requests.

Explore lessons
  1. Fair disagreements
  2. Quiet, hurtful, or clear?
  3. Your voice matters
  4. Build an “I feel” message
  5. Mission check: a clear request
06

The seven-step reset

Plan a safe pause, settle with support, and return when ready.

Explore lessons
  1. 1 · Make a reset plan
  2. 2 · Notice the first clue
  3. 3 · Put a pause before the urge
  4. 4 · Take safe space
  5. 5 · Help your body and mind settle
  6. 6 · Check readiness and reconnect
  7. 7 · Turn the energy toward repair
  8. Mission check: your seven-step reset
07

Cool the thoughts that add fuel

Check assumptions and practise balanced self-talk.

Explore lessons
  1. Be a helpful inner coach
  2. Spot nine thinking traps
  3. Turn down the thought heat
  4. Mission check: facts and possibilities
08

Help your body settle

Try comfortable breathing, grounding, and gentle muscle release.

Explore lessons
  1. Find a comfortable rhythm
  2. Gentle belly breathing
  3. From tense to soft
  4. Mission check: choose your body tool
09

Solve, repair, and try again

Turn a problem into a plan while protecting self-respect.

Explore lessons
  1. Five steps to a fair plan
  2. Avoid the problem-solving potholes
  3. You can own a mistake and stay kind to yourself
  4. Mission check: solve without shame
10

Your everyday calm plan

Practise in real situations and leave with a plan you can use.

Explore lessons
  1. Your seven-day practice mission
  2. My calm plan: notice, pause, choose

QUESTIONS FROM FAMILIES

Anger management for kids: common questions

What is anger management for kids?

It is learning to recognise angry feelings and practise safer ways to respond. This online course teaches noticing early clues, taking a supported pause, asking for help, communicating clearly, and repairing after mistakes.

What ages is this course for?

The course is for ages 4–12. The 4–7 path uses adult-led stories, pointing, drawing and one small action at a time. The 8–12 path uses school, friendship, homework, sibling and gaming situations with adult check-ins. The more abstract ideas are for adults to explain and adapt; young children are not expected to study independently.

What will my child practise?

Children practise recognising triggers, using a feelings meter and needs check, taking a safe reset, choosing balanced thoughts, trying body-calming tools, speaking assertively, and solving problems. Examples include sibling disagreements, homework, games, friendships and school frustrations.

Can children who are not confident readers use the course?

Yes. Expressive ElevenLabs narration reads the skills, the selected age-specific story, activities, questions, and answer explanations. Children can pause, replay, slow the audio, and choose numbered answers. Ages 4–7 still need an adult learning partner.

How much does the anger management course cost?

The course costs CAD $99.99 as a one-time purchase. One purchasing family account includes all 43 lessons and both age paths, saved learning progress, practice questions, and a printable calm plan.

Is this course a replacement for therapy?

No. This is self-paced skills education, not therapy, diagnosis, or a court-program certificate. If anger is causing harm, repeated distress, or safety concerns, seek support from a qualified professional. In immediate danger, get urgent help.

Our Scarborough office

Positive Kids has an office near Ellesmere Road and Midland Avenue. Contact intake to confirm the service, clinician and appointment availability.

Our Vaughan / Concord office

Positive Kids has an office near Jane Street and Highway 407, serving families in Vaughan, Concord and Woodbridge. Woodbridge families can attend this Vaughan / Concord office. Contact intake to confirm service and appointment availability.

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