Skip "calm down." These phrases can defuse conflict without sacrificing your boundaries.
Parenting Tips: The child immediately quiets down, but tears well up in his eyes, and he's frightened. After returning home, you'll remember that moment again and again, wishing you could have been a ...
Anger calls. Resist the urge to act on it. It is the wrong response to insanity. The Trump administration, and those who support it, seem to suffer from a political version of "shared psychotic ...