Hamza Jaffar

“Perhaps the most memorable response I heard was from a teenager who knew that his mother was attending my workshops. The boy came home from school muttering angrily, “They had no right to keep me off the team today just because I didn’t have my gym shorts. I had to sit and watch the whole game. It was so unfair!” “That must have been very upsetting to you,” she said to him with concern. He snapped at her, “Oh, you, you always take their side!” She grabbed his shoulder. “Jimmy, I don’t think you heard me. I said, ‘That must have been very upsetting for you.’” He blinked and stared at her. Then he said, “Dad should go to that course, too!”
― Adele Faber, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk