To Help with Feelings

1. Listen with full attention.
2. Acknowledge their feelings with a word – “Oh” . . . “Mmm” . . . “I see.”
3. Give their feelings a name. (“That sounds frustrating.”)
4. Give them their wishes in fantasy. (“I wish I could send you to babysit right now.”)

- from the book 'How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk' by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

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I Am New,
Krish Murali Eswar.