“Over time both parents and child figure out that the more quickly they get enraged and threatening, the more quickly they get what they want—the parents get obedience or the child gets a reprieve from a command. When this process goes unchecked over many months, it can lead to confrontations that end in parents physically abusing their children or the children destroying property, attacking the parents, holding their breath until blue, banging their head against a floor or wall, or hurting themselves in other ways. This is how “No!” escalates into violence in some families.”
― Your Defiant Child: 8 Steps to Better Behavior
― Your Defiant Child: 8 Steps to Better Behavior
“The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not "I know who I am", but rather "I know who I'm not". Process of elimination... Knowing who we are is hard. Eliminate who we're not first, and we'll find ourselves where we need to be.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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