"She’s being unreasonable and grumpy and disrespectful. You can’t let her treat you like that!

"But here’s what you don’t see: Your child is standing in the middle of that horrible, horrible island, the choppy water lashing at her feet. Feeling like she’s the most alone that any person in the world has ever felt.

"Stress hormones are flooding her brain. She can’t think clearly. She can’t see that by lashing out, she’s pushing you further away. Her brain isn’t capable of pulling back for the bird’s eye view of her rapidly sinking island...

"She needs you to build a bridge...."

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