Furious Fables

By Teresa Trower

Furious Fables is comprised of ten short stories designed to help children deal with angry feelings. The stories explore fighting, enabling, controlling others, friendship conflicts, divorce, substance abuse, bullying,over-eating, and grief.
Questions for discussion are included so that an adult can help the child process the story as a learning experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Teresa Trower
• Release date: Mar 2, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452401218

Teresa Trower

Teresa Trower, M.A., LMHC, has been in the helping professions for 35 years as a Classroom teacher, Guidance Counselor, and Mental Health Counselor. She wrote Furious Fables while serving as an elementary counselor to assist children dealing with anger. She is currently doing counseling with adults and children in her private practice in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Furious Fables

Stories to Help Children Deal with Anger

By Teresa Trower LMHC

Smashwords Edition published by Affective Enterprises, 2010

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Copyright 1989 Affective Enterprises

Revised Edition 2010

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How To Use the Fables

By definition, a fable is a short fictitious narrative intended to convey a moral.

The purpose of the fables is to enable children to reflect upon their own styles of dealing with anger through the exploration of how other characters manage aggression.

The fables explore the various ways in which people typically experience and express anger. This method of storytelling allows children to escape into fantasy while simultaneously considering alternative ways of coping.

The fables explore the following behaviors and the underlying feelings or situations which trigger those behaviors. Questions are included at the end of each story to help the child generalize the message and meaning to his/her own experience.

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The Fables

The Balloon: Fighting and Aggression

The Rescue: Enabling Others

The Contest: Controlling Behavior

The Curse of the Cider Poison: Parental Substance Abuse

The Mission: Passive Aggressive Behavior

The Frozen Finger: Blaming Others

The Friendship Dilemma: Friendship The Taming of Spite: Internalized Anger

Rolly Polly Rollo: Overeating

A Time To Mourn: Grief

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The Balloon

Once upon a time there lived a tadpole named Timothy. Timothy loved to dart back and forth in a nearby pond, occasionally resting on a lily pad. When he wasn’t playing in the pond, Timothy attended Tadpole Elementary, where he was completing the third grade.

Timothy’s parents, Frieda and Frederick, had recently divorced and