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Lael Stone - Creating Emotionally Intelligent Humans

The Imperfects

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Parenting Is the Ultimate Hot Pot of Control

"I'm really calm, gentle person, and then I had children and I want to stab someone," she says. "Mother rage is a feeling that comes up because we can't make these little people do what we want them to do." She works with many mothers who say they were never allowed to get angry at their parents as kids. 'The more we talk about it and feel it for ourselves, the more space we have then to turn up'

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