For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.
~ Ellen Key
- - - - -Chris (to me): Aww... do you need hewp wif your wittle shoesies?
It did not bother me that she was talking baby talk to me when I was complaining about my shoe coming untied. No, what bothered me is that she mocked me while standing there with her skort inside out.
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