The Anger Management Story:
Once upon a time, there was a boy with a very bad temper.
One day, his father handed him a bag of nails and said, “Every time you lose your temper, you must hammer a nail into this fence.”
On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails into the fence.
As the days went on, the boy began to control his temper, and the number of nails he hammered into the fence gradually decreased.
He soon realized that it was easier to control his temper than to hammer nails into the fence.
Finally, the day came when the boy did not lose his temper at all. He proudly told his father, and his father suggested that the boy now remove one nail from the fence each day that he kept his temper in check.
The days went by, and eventually, the boy was able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took the boy by the hand and led him to the fence.
“You did well, my son,” the father said, “but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this. You can put a knife in a man and pull it out. No matter how many times you say you’re sorry, the wound is still there.”
