Mad Isn't Bad: A Child's Book About Anger (Elf-Help Books for Kids)

I've found all the books we've read from the Elf-Help series to be really good. They have a great approach to dealing with angry feelings in this book - and it's been useful to provide terminology that says being angry is fine as long as you don't take it out on yourself, others or things.There is a chapter that references God, which we skip as we're not religious, but that is the only thing that I don't like & that would be fine for most people. Even for us non-religious types the way the God references are written are not too overbearing or judgemental & are easy enough to explain away to small kids.I would highly recommend any books from this series, regardless of your belief system.

I read this to my 6 year old to help reinforce his own personal awareness with topics that he struggles with due to his ADHD. Being aware of what we need to work on is the first step to correcting the problem behavior and hopefully preventing our children from future frustrations and disappointments within themselves. It is easier to mold them into respectful, responsible kids at a younger age. With that said this book is one of many that we read as our "self help" kinda books. This is a longer very informative book, it doesn't keep the attention of my 6 year old for more than a few pages. I pick and choose the pages I read depending on what I am trying to make him aware of and teach him coping skills in regards to things he struggled with that day or week.

My youngest cousin had quite the temper. This book along with some other behavior modifications helped a lot! He is so much happier! I think he didn't realize that other kids get angry like him, he goes to a tiny school with 48 kids and was always "the bad one." He thought everything was his fault. When I read this book to him he asked plenty of questions and it calmed him down that night. We did other things as well to help his anger but over time it became better and reading this book to him helped him understand his anger a bit better.

Such a great book to read to children that may be having a hard time. This book bring it down to the children's levels and explains what they are experience on their levels and terms. Will highly recommend this book to any parent or teacher that needs just a little extra help

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This book has a good message for children regarding expressing anger appropriately; however, it is a little long and detailed for younger children. I would say it's better suited for ages 7+. The illustrations were good and the writing was well done.

I can't put my finger on what bothers me about these books. Maybe it's the Christian references. None of the book reviews I read when purchasing several of these books mentioned that there was stuff about what god wants and what Christians should do. This just doesn't sit well with me. Some of the info is ok but most of the books go to far or off the target subject.They don't seem to appeal to my boy either. So we rarely even read them after the first time. He never asks for any of them to be read again. That says something important, don't you think? There are better "get along" books.

Would reccomend to anyone trying to help their kid(s) get a hand on being angry or frustrated and what to do about those feelings.

We bought this book for our son who is diagnosed with ASD and PDA and gets angry quite easily. It is written really well and so that a child can understand without patronising them. I wish I'd found this book when he was a bit younger, he was 12 when we bought him this and he found it a bit babyish. Well thought out book though and would recommend.

Well written and concise, this book is easy for kids to understand but the points are good for parents as well. Makes reader feel okay about feeling anger. Great message.

My kids quite like this book 3, 6 and 8. I think it's good for them to know its ok to be mad it's how you express it and your not a bad person for being mad.

A nice book, has some good advice for helping children learn to deal with their anger, lovely pictures and easy to read. However, please be aware that the last few pages refer to 'being mad at God' and tells the child they can forgive themselves because God forgives them. I feel this should be disclosed in the description, giving people a chance to decide if this is for them or not. Personally, not something I want to teach my child, I'll be removing my these pages, so thought others should be aware too.

Great