Tonight we read....
I thought I was breaking the cycle from my correction-focused childhood by
being endlessly encouraging. What I was actually doing was building a
different kind of cage, one where my kids learned that the only acceptable
emotion in our house was a happy one
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I replaced my father's silence with relentless cheerfulness, and it took my
four-year-old whispering an apology for being sad to show me I'd built a
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