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I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

As I've mentioned many times, perhaps too many times, I could have tremendous intellectual and emotional satisfaction when I hear someone give exactly the right answer to a difficult question.

It makes me so happy to hear when someone has just the right words.

And here's one of my favorite examples.

The parenting book that I most often recommend is Faber and Maselish's Masterpiece.

How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk.

One thing I admire about the book is that what they observe and suggest for talking to children applies just as well to adults.

And this is also true for another book by Faber and Maselish, which I also love, called Siblings Without Rivalry.

How to help your children live together so you can live too.

In a thought-provoking chapter called Equal is Less, they talk about how to deal with the child who says,

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