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Teach Your Children Well
We’ve covered a fair amount of
ground already. At this point, I hope you have a sense of
your child’s pathways (skills that need to be taught) and
have identified various triggers that routinely precipitate
explosive outbursts (problems that need to be solved).
Perhaps you’ve reduced some of the tension in your
household by eliminating some unnecessary or unrealis-
tic expectations (with Plan C). And perhaps you’ve re-
duced the likelihood of explosions even further by
collaboratively solving some of the problems that were
precipitating those explosions (with Plan B). Bear in
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