What I said when my daughter got angry recently, and what I wish I had done instead

Susan Saybrook
2 min readJan 10, 2021

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My daughter got angry with someone recently, in a situation where I thought her anger was justified. She wanted to confront the person, a family member, immediately, and I urged her to wait. I reminded her that she was likelier to say something she’d regret if she tried to talk when she was so angry. I…

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Susan Saybrook

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