These overwhelming feelings take him far away, over stormy seas and transport him into another dimension. In his imagination he meets the wild things who “roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.” Now while this presents as a dream of sorts, all this “terribleness” is actually a reference to Max’s enormous feelings of hostility and rage he is feeling in those moments. He is seething with anger and beyond furious with his mom. In the story misbehaving Max is sent to his room in an absolute flap. So what does Where The Wild Things Are teach us about tantrums? But then from far away across the world, Max smells good things to eat and longs for home where “someone loves him best of all.” For a full reading of this book click here. From there, Max sets sail to an island inhabited by the ferocious Wild Things, who name him king and share a wild rumpus with him. In the book little Max, dressed in his wolf-suit, is sent up to his room without supper for misbehaving. So here are three important messages in this beautifully sophisticated story.
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Buried deep in its storyline are meaningful truths about how to think carefully about tantrums and big scary feelings. Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is so much more than an adventurous tale.
Three Things that Where The Wild Things Are Teaches Us About Tantrums
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