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Coercive vs non-coercive communication
🧠 How to express approval when children do something good without manipulating them by implying that you would disapprove if they had made a different choice
👿 The language of parental power plays
🥶 Surely we should communicate our disapproval to our children?
🧩 Expressing approval vs expressing appreciation
🤔 Question or command?
🚼 How to non-coercively communicate urgent information to pre-verbal toddlers
💔 Never make a child feel bad
🤢 Common emotional blackmail
💠 Coercion, manipulation, reason, persuasion
♒️ “What do you think?”
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