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.

This book is packed with advice and strategies for those working with children under five on how to understand and manage anger in children, and also how to help their parents or caregivers to deal with anger. The authors outline the different reasons children may feel angry so that their emotions can be fully understood, and offer strategies to combat negative feelings and minimize outbursts. These include putting in place behavioural boundaries and helping a child to feel secure. Simple activities and exercises are also given to help children and adults to express their anger positively. In addition, a selection of poems and stories will help adults to pass on the lessons of the book to children.

This practical and accessible book will be of essential use to any professional helper of parents and young children such as early childhood educators, caregivers and social workers, as well as to parents themselves.

You can purchase Little Volcanoes: Helping Young Children and Their Parents to Deal with Anger direct from the publisher.

For more information, here is an interview with author Warwick Pudney.

Tigilau Ness wearing one of our caps

From the promo:

“New Zealand hip-hop artist, Che Fu and his father, musician Tigilau Ness, share an intimate pilgrimage to their island homeland of Niue.

Their first ever journey to the tiny pacific atoll to perform at the Niue Arts and Culture Festival has a profound and unexpected effect on their whole family.”

The video is well worth watching. It is currently available from the list in the centre of the Pakipumeka page (you may need to scroll sideways).

If you want to look like a TV star, you can get your own F&C cap from our shop.

For more detail and the full report, see here:

For the NZ Herald report with Auckland solo dad Daniel Philips, see

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Father & Child Trust spokesman Brendon Smith said some young men wanted to have something they had never enjoyed themselves.

And shutting them out could make them suffer an intense form of separation anxiety that could even lead to self-harm.

He said Work and Income, Housing NZ, the family of the girl, and even entrance criteria for teenage mum units could work against teen dads living with the mother, preventing them from providing or participating as a parent.

“My experience is that the young mum often then welcomes other men into the house and they are often not `father material’.”

He said that could lead to unsafe situations for the child and frequently fuelled conflict with the child’s father.

“When the young dads try to report their concerns to agencies or relatives, they are not listened to. They are unable to be a protector of their child.”