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Why Your Anxious Child Needs This One Phrase
Why Your Anxious Child Needs This One Phrase A mom told me about her eight-year-old daughter who was refusing to go to school. “She kept saying her stomach hurt,” the mom explained, eyes welling up. “I took her to three doctors. They all said she was fine. But every morning, she’d cry and cling to […]
What Your Child’s ‘I Hate You’ is Really Trying to Tell You
What Your Child’s “I Hate You” Is Really Trying to Tell You The first time my daughter screamed “I hate you!” at me, I was standing in the cereal aisle of Target holding a box of store-brand flakes instead of the unicorn-covered sugar bombs she wanted. She was four. I was exhausted. And for about […]