2 Hours Left to Deadline. Your Kid Spills Coffee on the Report…

What do you do?
A Natural Reaction is to become angry and shout “”Be careful! I told you no ball playing in the house!!”

Let’s Reframe.

Your priority in life is your family.

You have a job to support your family, not the other way around.

You work to help them have what they need to develop into the best people they can.

Your spout of anger will train them to follow your example.

So getting angry went against your priorities.

You can overcome it. Believe in yourself.

Here are Jewish Self-help links on anger management:

Story
There is a story about how great our ancestors were in controlling themselves in
an Audio by Rabbi Akiva Tatz called Levels of the Spirit – Sins of the Great. One story he mentions about Rabbi Moshe Feinstein can inspire us to follow his example.

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