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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Parents see an adult sized person and assume adult sized judgement. It helps to say out loud that the wiring is still being finished well past eighteen.
The look of the young person is doing the arguing, and it is very persuasive, so only a plain statement will counter it. Say that the parts used for…
Say what you would prefer and what you will do, not what they have to feel. I do not like being spoken to this way, and if it carries on I am going to step out of the conversation.
The difference is small and it changes everything. A demand needs their cooperation to succeed, so it can be refused, and being refused is where the…
Asking again and again whether it will be alright, and being told yes, buys a few seconds of calm and guarantees the next round of asking. The kindness in the answer is what keeps it going.
You can hear it in the shape of the question: the same one, worded slightly differently, asked of the same person. If you are the one being asked,…
Say the coping sentence aloud instead of thinking it. Some people generate very little of that inner commentary on their own, and hearing it in the room does the job the inner voice was supposed to do.
Out loud, in your own words, something like: my brain is doing the thing again, this is chemistry, it is here because I care. Say it in the car, in…
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