This chapter starts by talking about how at the turn of the century there became a recognition concerning anger and its place in society. Between 1860 and 1940 new realities began to emerge about the human personality and anger control. Strategies in the subject of anger control began to emerge as they discovered avoiding anger was an unrealistic expectation than previously believed. Child rearing brought on a new emotionology and how an individual expressed oneself emotionally began to evolve in turn.

A new uncertainty arose concerning anger in child rearing began to emerge in society. Once believed to ignore anger then a came the Victorian period, was a disapproval of anger without considering the reasons behind the anger was the belief. Toward the end of the nineteenth century especially in males, a …show more content…
They realized that channeling ones’ anger into a competitive drive is a more productive approach. The Evangelical’s believed “the same temper that smashes a toy in anger, may when a child is grown, kill a man”. Darwinism helped alter the views concerning anger in children through his findings about animal bases of human behavior, he recognized that many children did not have emotional outbursts and therefore it might be due to parental emotional control. Behaviorist such as John B. Walsh, found that controlling a child’s anger was easy to achieve by the elimination of restraints but they also didn’t feel coddling was the answer either. Growing concerns on this subject grew with experts and it seemed everyone had an opinion on it and not everyone agreed with each other. During the late nineteenth century was another concern for parents, this was the children incapable of anger lacking individualism and independence these children who were truly “pathetic”’. G. Stanly Hall determining that anger in children is destructive and is damaging to the health of the child. The American Institute of Child