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What to Do When Your Child Screams, "I Hate You!"    

Upset Girl

    

Q. Recently, when my first-grader is angry or upset, she tells me she hates me! This hurts my feelings, and I really don't know how to respond. I try hard not to react in anger myself, as I know that two angry people usually only make each other angrier. Neither of us needs that!

 

Do I tell her my feelings are hurt? Send her to her room? Demand an apology? She's a good girl, but I don't want this meanness to continue.
 

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