(I say ‘We’ because I’ve said most of them!)
“Calm down.”
“Get off that screen.”
“You’re being silly.”
This great list is from clinical psychologist Dr Martha Deiros Collado, author of the brilliant book How to Be the Grown-up.
Here’s a carousel showing all 12 phrases — and what to say instead.
You’ll probably recognise more than a few.
Do you think anyone in history has ever calmed down when told to ‘Calm down’? (Why do we still say it then?)
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