Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are trying to work, or when your best friend does not wait for you after school? If you do, you need to take control(控制) of your feelings and stop getting angry. Getting angry with people can cause you to lose friends.

   Cary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, has written My Feelings Are Just Like Wild Animals to help control(控制) feelings. It tells teenagers how to stay cool when bad things hap pen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can never make them better. "Getting angry is not a natural way to act," the book says. It is just a bad habit(习惯) like smoking. The book says you can control you anger easily—all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.

   When a baby falls over, it only cries if people are watching it. Like a baby, you should only get angry if you are sure it is right to do so.

   The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three:

   1Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.

   2Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will make you not angry.

   3Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!