“What do you do with the mad that you feel? When you feel so mad you could bite.”
Rogers sang this line from his Neighborhood song to Senator Pastore during his Senate testimony, explaining that his program gave young children language for anger — the feeling that most frightens parents and isolates children. A father who can ask his child this question — what do you do with the mad that you feel?
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