Key points

Your child will have experiences which will make you angry with the person who caused them the difficulty.

Remaining rational and modeling calm will be most helpful to your child as they learn to handle the situation.

Use information gained by looking into what's happened, and ask a lot of questions.

Partnering with the school as you all figure out what is going on for your child can be very useful.

Mary found herself matching her daughter Sally’s distress as the 4th grader reported her interaction with her classmate Misty, a girl she had been in school with for years. With her own maternal revenge fantasies swirling around in her head, Mary was relieved and thankful that Frank was able to be so calm and reasonable with their daughter in the face of what she was shari

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