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Focusing on feelings, which we know are in constant and often even inaccurate guides
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to whether we have been hurt or injured, or whether we're in the right
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Getting kids to constantly focus on their feelings is actually a recipe for misery.
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We know this. We're going into schools and as parents were doing the same
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thing. We're constantly asking kids, how are they feeling about this? How
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are they feeling about that? We're inducing a constant focus on their negative feelings.
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Why is it negative? Because of course, if you ask someone constantly
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how they're feeling, they're actually going to produce mostly negative responses. And the
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reason is most of them are not in a state called happy. They're in
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some kind of period of irritation, itch, discomfort, worry, and getting
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kids to focus on those things while rather than going out and doing good,
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that's the opposite of what we want to be doing.