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Children at this stage are better able to reason too, and to turn their parents’ own logic against them in potentially ugly ways; as any parent of a teenager will tell you, an adolescent knows just what hurts.
Brian
Y, this is going to be the worst part. Young children don’t have an objective to injure with their words, even if they say things that hurt while in tantrum mode. Adolescents certainly do, and in fact might be their primary aim at times. Ugh.
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
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