How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger • Discoverology

How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger

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Back in the 1960s, a Harvard graduate student made a landmark discovery about the nature of human anger. There were no roads, no heating systems, no grocery stores. Winter temperatures could easily dip below minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Briggs persuaded an Inuit family to “adopt” her and “try to keep her alive.”

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