It's Hard to Feel Compassion for Unreasonable Emotions
Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled
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Is Your Child Starting to Scream, Cry and Cry?
"It's a healthy expression of feelings for children who don't have mature self-regulation yet," she says. "As children get older, they'll also be accompanying these feelings with statements like, I don't like you and other unkind words." It sounds like this parent's not necessarily getting those yet, but she's getting the whining and the screaming and the crying. These are all healthy ways that feelings are expressed at this age and even older.
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