How To Make Your Children Angrier

1. Argue with your child.

2. Yell at your child.

3. Believe that the excuses your child offers when they are mad or in trouble are the real excuses and the problems your child brings up when they are calm and not in trouble are the fake ones.

4. Demonstrate the art of being angry, by being an angry person yourself.

5. Lecture your child.

6. Suggest to your child that the root cause of their anger is something outside of their control.

7. Suggest to your child that an event in the past caused their anger and, because it is in the past, your child is now doomed to be angry forever.

8. Suggest to your child that another person’s actions are the cause of their anger and their feelings are at the mercy of the other person’s decisions.

9. Belittle your child.

10. Shame your child.

11. Guilt your child.

12. Compare your child to other children.