So simple it just might work

A Simple Strategy That Will Completely Change Your Parenting Game

Forget the same page, sometimes we weren’t even in the same book

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We are all guilty of telling ourselves stories. I told myself I could pull off a cropped hoodie. My daughter told herself she helped bake the cake I made after she flour-bombed the kitchen and distracted me with slime fart noises. My husband tells himself he’s whispering while speaking at full volume.

The point is, we are all, to some extent, our own unreliable narrators.

Recently, my ten-year-old went into hysterics when I commented that she could use the little squares on her graph paper to organize her math work. It seemed like a disproportionate reaction.

Many tissues and probing questions later, we uncovered the truth behind the tears: my daughter interpreted my comment as a judgment that I think she’s bad at math.

WUT???????

Ok, but as someone who recently convinced myself a colleague hates me because she used the (!!) reaction on a joke I texted instead of the (HA HA) emoji, I get it.

It was time to teach my daughter the tool that has served me well for many years. You see, years ago, my work…