Book by Warwick Pudney and Éliane Whitehouse.

Young children can erupt like little volcanoes when they are feeling angry. It can be overwhelming and difficult to deal with, and can produce angry feelings in the parent or caregiver too.

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The government has released its Green Paper on Vulnerable Children, outlining problems and possible approaches to tackling child abuse in New Zealand, and wants everyone’s feedback. A special web site (www.saysomething.org.nz) has been set up, which allows people to comment on specific issues, or on the whole paper, and making a submission is a lot less tedious. The deadline for this is 28 February.
Father & Child believes that the government is genuinely interested in hearing people’s voices about this, and they have expressed that they’re keen to get more submissions from dads (or males) than they usually get.