Effective communication isn't easy because it's always a unique balance between the speaker and listener. When my daughter was seven she had an argument with a friend she felt hadn't understood her, and she was very upset. When we were talking about it, I asked if she'd said exactly what she meant to say to her friend. She looked at me, totally irritated at this point, and said, "YES. I WAS VERY PACIFIC!"
The infant researcher Daniel Stern says that,...
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