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Jan 2022
10m 19s

6 Reasons Not to Take Your Child’s Words...

MICHELLE KENNEY, M. ED
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Not taking our child’s behavior personally can be extremely challenging. Not only does it restimulate our own unmet needs but on some level, we might believe what they are saying is true or that they really believe we are “mean” or understand that the off-track behavior is meaningful rather than just a behavior. In this episode, I reframe those ideas and giv ... Show More
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