Emotional Language for Parents and Children

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Eating meat can grow meat? How much meat is enough for 2 to 5 years old?

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Self-protection mechanism of children

Written by: Psychotherapist Lee Wai-Tong, Unleashing Mind  Professional  Counselling Academy   One day, a colleague told me that he/she had received a call from a mother who was anxious to bring her son to see me. On the phone, I learned that the boy had pointed a knife at his neck several times in the past month, threatening his mother to give her change to buy snacks, or else he would stab himself in the neck. The mother, on one hand, of course, was surprised at her son’s behavior, and on the other hand, worried that he might stab himself accidentally, so she had to give him money. But the boy did the same thing many

Parents also need to have their own time, out of balance easily affect the relationship between couples

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