How to Deal with the Teenage Anger in You

Anger is the enemy in any relationship, even as a teenager.

Lack of control leads to the use of words that may later be deeply regretted, even when you feel it was just bearing your mind, it still does not help your relationship at all.

Often times the inability of dealing with teenage anger leads to rebellion, violent outburst as well as other emotionally related impulses. This puts you as an unstable, unreliable person.:(

To deal with teenage anger means to help curb chances of going off at a tangent to the purpose of getting angry in the first place. You must realize that teenage anger is being unable to manage your emotions-hence the term teenage anger.

Anger is good, but not being able to manage it is not okay, therefore to deal with teenage anger in you, here are my sincere suggestions:

Tips for calming down

* Watch your tongue. Many time you'll observe that the course for sudden outburst isn't really worth the trouble

* Calm Down. Think matters through before opening your mouth in speech.

* Get Distracted. Whatever gets hot also gets cold, try taking a walk to ease tension

* Preach to yoursel. Talk to yourself. Say mind soothing words to yourself, reaffirm you are not going to blow up, you are not going to go out of control, etc

* Turn the Gun. Instead of getting angry, try to re-frame the matter and use it against the source of your anger.

* Diffuse the Bomb. As long as you are not being sarcastic in your approach, you could have a little humor on the side to dampen the whole get-angry thing.Works for me :)

So, there you have it.

Give it a shot and remember, Anger is your enemy, not the person who causes you to get angry.

What is Teen Dating Violence?

Hi, In this blog my passion is to help solve, if not all then some of the most crucial questions young people ask, providing real, factual and dependable answers for today's youngster.

for today, I'll like us to look at a question I was once asked at a speaking engagement, hope you enjoy it - it's on Teenage Dating Violence, read on..

Teenage dating violence has been defined as the sexual, physical,psychological (or better put emotional) violence that takes place in the course of a dating relationship.

Chances are that you may have heard of numerous different words used to explain teenage dating violence(we won't be dealing with that on this issue).

From research about 9.9% of high "schoolers" report of various forms of violence, from being knocked out, slapped,to other cases as being molested physically on the account of a girl or boy. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.)

And because dating today is common place with everyone, it is expected of all concerned to know when to, know when to run and when to quit.

Having now a clue to what teenage dating violence is - the next logical thing to ask would be - What are the courses of teenage of dating violence?

subsequent posts will deal with this issue. see ya!