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#1 This part of the book addresses how verbal abuse limits your potential and how to recover from it. It covers self-help processes to facilitate recovery, including how to discover and recover your greatest gifts, and how to develop a strong sense of self.
#2 Verbal abuse is the attempt to control you. It is important to understand that you are not what you've been...
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#1 The phone rings. I am standing on a stool reaching up for a cookbook that's sitting right in the farthest corner of the top shelf. I have just finished clearing up after the children's dinner, and my foster child, Lily, has announced her decision to become a vegetarian.
#2 I have been working hard to help Lily learn to control her temper and her desire to always be...
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#1 The area where we lived was between the glitzy Hamptons estates and New York City's gritty, disco party culture. We rarely traveled the main roads like the Southern State or Sunrise Highway.
#2 I was always the one who opened the car doors for my mother, since the interior car-door handle was missing. I was always the one who stepped out and pulled the exterior driver's-side...
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#1 Helen, after college, spent most of her time with non-government organizations fighting for a better world. She went wherever she was needed, and one day, her mother asked her to come home. Her father had killed himself in the house where she grew up.
#2 When I asked Helen if she had ever thought of herself as resilient, she was taken aback but not confused. She replied...
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#1 Until the beginning of the twentieth century, most women breastfed their babies. However, the historical record shows that there have been no shortage of remedies for so-called lactation failure.
#2 In the United States, wet nursing was less common than it was in Europe. By the 1860s or so, mothers found a new option for feeding their babies: homemade formula.
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#1 The foster parents were trained to use a system of points and levels to modify behavior. The kids would start on a low level and earn points every day for completing various tasks, with which they could then buy a range of privileges.
#2 I made two charts for the children. One for each child. On each chart, I had written three statements. For each successfully completed...
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#1 I began working as an escort, and every day I had sex with between six and eight men. Jak always went with me in a taxi to drop me off at their homes or hotel rooms. Then he would wait for me in a café to take me to the next job. I hated it.
#2 I was 14 when I got pregnant. I was ecstatic, but Jak seemed pleased about it. I had two regular clients who didn't use...
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#1 As a four-year-old, I was diagnosed with severe sleep deprivation. I was then moved to the garage, where I slept on a cot without a blanket, and was fed only when Mother felt like it.
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Book Preview: #1 The Visual Cliff experiment is a test of depth perception and how it is developed. It involves a checkerboard pattern that lies flush under a Plexiglas surface for half of its length, but then slants some four feet, creating the illusion of a sheer drop beneath the solid surface.
#2 The infant's cry is pitched in such a way to get the attention of the adult brain....
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#1 The modern parent struggles to raise children who are not as respectful and disciplined as they were when they were children. Many parents feel as though they are not making any progress with their children, and they are growing more and more frustrated.
#2 The gap between children and adults has never been bigger. We struggle to live up to our image of what parenting...
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#1 I am in a hotel room in Baltimore, the morning after speechifying at a girls' school a few miles away. I wake to receive a text from my eldest son, who is about to become a father. I am about to become a grandmother.
#2 The baby is the homunculus, the small human dreamed up by alchemists hundreds of years ago. He is the beginning of his own story, but he is also a...
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#1 I eventually managed to visit Christoph and told him that my mother wanted to visit me. He took a photograph of me standing next to the café owner, smiling and holding some cups on a tray. The next day, he gave me a print of the photo and said, Put it in your bag. You can show it to your mum when she comes.
#2 I was excited to see my mother again, and I was excited...
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#1 I grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family, and I was expected to marry a rich Jewish man when I was eighteen and have lots of children. The fact that I had different goals caused a rift in my relationship with my grandfather.
#2 The importance of men was illustrated to me when my brother Lee was born on May 23, 1945, three days before my fifth birthday. My parents brought...
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#1 I remember my grandfather having a heart attack and being extremely despondent about his health and the future of the farm. My mother and father stayed because of this, despite my grandmother dying and my father being offered a job in Bloomington.
#2 My grandfather, who had been a full-time hobby farmer, suddenly became very ill. He was rushed to the hospital, where...
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#1 I was moved again, this time to a house with my sisters Camille, Gi, and Norm. We were wards of the state, and our mother had abandoned us. We were all very skinny because we were constantly hungry.
#2 I was the eldest of three girls, and we had survived a lot in our short lives. We had seen and experienced a lot, but we rarely cried. Until that day, when my sister...
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Book Preview: #1 When it came to breakfast, Jennifer would often scream that her brother could not have the waffles, even if he asked for them. She would become physically aggressive towards her mother if her mother tried to give her brother something else.
#2 Jennifer's parents have had to deal with her extreme volatility and inflexibility for years, as it constantly drains their...
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#1 The more you can recall how you felt and what you did in your youth, the better a parent you will be.
#2 Parents should remember how difficult the teen years can be and connect with their teens, as that will help them empathize with them.
#3 Parents want to be remembered by their kids as someone who stuck with them, helped them make sense of the world, and learned...
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#1 I have gone on the journey of figuring out how to make life less sucky, and I have written this book to share with you the lessons I have learned. I was not taught in school or at work the importance of self-love, positive self-talk, happiness, or personal growth.
#2 The lack of value placed on mental health, and all things associated with it, during my childhood...
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#1 The prisoner-warden approach to parenting is when the parent is the warden, constantly watching the child's actions. The child, in the role of prisoner, does something right or wrong, and the parent responds with either a reward or a punishment.
#2 When we discipline our children, we assume that they are inherently undisciplined and need to be civilized. But what...
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#1 The pain of intimate betrayal is real and comes from a primitive part of the brain that developed to protect us from leaving the tribe. It is highly irrational, but it is nonetheless powerful.
#2 Intimate betrayal is defined as a sudden revelation or a gradual realization of your partner having lied, manipulated, stolen, or cheated. It can be difficult to deal with,...
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