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Originally Posted by susannahsays
I don't disagree that might be their intention, but how very unnatural! People in real life do not respond this way unless they just don't care. Or, I suppose, if a parent is too tired to engage with a tantruming child. I'm left wondering what the point is of modeling such a bizarre response that will never be replicated in life. Maybe it's me... I've been equally baffled by other things therapists are said to model.
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But it isn't unnatural. I see people respond this way all the time in real life, particularly with children, probably because I am around a lot of pretty darn good parents with regularity, and teachers - it's just what we do . . .. if we know anything about child development, etc. . . . The shame is that it does seem so bizarre and unnatural to so many peoples' experience because they were raised in environments of punishment and judgment instead of logical consequences, patience, and acceptance.