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Coercive vs non-coercive communication

🧠 “How can I express approval when children do something good without manipulating them by implying that I would disapprove if they had made a different choice?”

♒️ The language of parental power plays

🧬 Coercion, manipulation, reason, persuasion

🔷 “What do you think?”

🥶 “Surely we should communicate our disapproval to our children?”

❇️ Expressing approval vs expressing appreciation

🤢 Common emotional blackmail

🤔 Question or command?

🚼 “How can we non-coercively communicate urgent information to pre-verbal toddlers?”

💔 Never make a child feel bad

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