When you are looking after a child

Read to them, don’t force them, and let them see you doing it.

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They're having a hard time, not giving you one

One small thing you could do

Next meltdown — today's or this week's — say the reframe once inside your own head before you respond: this is happening to them, not at me. Nothing else changes yet. Just notice what your shoulders do when the sentence lands.

Someone handed me the words early in my son's life: he isn't giving me a hard time — he's having one. When nothing else worked, I'd tell him softly what heavy work it is, being brand-new.

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