No 4 Y

From How to talk so kids can learn — at home and in school by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish


Especially unsettling to a child is the question that demands the answer to why he feels what he feels. The word "why" requires him to justify his feelings, to come up with a logical, acceptable reason for having them. Often he doesn't know the reason.


Seems like a word to reasonably proscribe from many an adult-to-adult conversation too.


And so for day 181
13.06.2007