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  • Author Philippa Perry
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    Quite often, when we think we are listening, all we are doing is waiting for a gap for an opportunity to speak back; we use our energy to compose our responses or our reply rather than to try to understand what the other person is trying to communicate,

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    Quite often, when we would prefer that something wasn't happening or hadn't happened, we lie by omission to our children. It it natural to want to protect our children from difficult feelings , but it is not their feelings that are a problem, it is our being terrified of their feelings that's the problem.

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    It is more useful to make a meaning like that about childcare than it is to look around the mess in your home and feel you have nothing to show, no results, for your day's work. The results will come, just not at the end of every single day, like they might in other types of work. When we adopt the habit of impact on use, parenting does become rewarding.

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