it. One thing that’s also worth considering before correcting your child is whether or not your own reactions are at all ego defensive. Are you identifying with your child, so that you feel his or her subpar behavior reflects poorly on you? When your daughter is fidgeting and can’t sit still in a restaurant, is the problem really the fidgeting, or other people’s judgments that you must be a bad parent because your child isn’t well behaved? Unless you can admit this to yourself, and give yourself compassion for this very human reaction, you’re likely to handle the situation poorly. When you are
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