I’ve been going through oodles of old papers, and last weekend, I got rid of a study I had held onto for a long time. Now I wish I still had it to hand because I’ve been thinking about it a lot. It tracked daily verbal comments from adults to children in a mid-sized cohort of families over a few weeks. Every verbal communication was recorded as positive, negative, or neutral. What do you think the daily ratio of negative to positive comments was? 2:5? 3:1? What do you think it would be in your house?
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