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Why "Use Your Words" Doesn't Work: How Children Learn Emotional Language | Dr David Marcus
Why "Use Your Words" Doesn't Work: How Children Learn Emotional Language | Dr David Marcus
Send us Fan Mail "Use your words," we tell our children. But what if they don't have the words yet? In this Fail With Me conversation, clinical psychologist Dr David S. Marcus explains why emotional language is a skill that has to be built, not something children simply pick up, and how parents can build it with them. Most of us parent the way we were parented, for better or worse. Dr Marcus has spent 40 years working with families under stress, and he unpacks what actually helps a child fee...