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1. Answer with honesty; answer = age-appropriate and commensurate with their level of understanding 2. Teach honesty > punishment for bad behaviour 3. Use process praise; focus on process/ effort vs innate ability

Helping children build on the feeling of being able to master a skill rather than already being a master promotes inner strength and resilience.

Chapter 1: self awareness

As she grew older, she learned the value of suppressing her response to everything her father doled out….. by the time she was 9, she had stripped herself of emotion the way another sort of child might have stripped bark off a birch tree.

“That was love wasn’t it? It’s wasn’t just a quick drop - it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as the became new people.

Favourite quote: “Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”