How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger

In the 1960’s Jean Briggs, a Harvard graduate, traveled to the Arctic to live among the Inuit. She noticed much less anger in their culture than in western societies, so she documented Inuit methods for raising children. Speaking angrily to children is seen as demeaning - Inuit parents control their anger and figure out why their children are upset. They use traditional stories with a dash of danger to teach kids appropriate behaviours. And they use dramas - after a child misbehaves, they act out what happened along with the consequences of that behaviour.