How to Bite your Tongue

Marian
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:19:22 +0000

Adad, that sounds like a really smart approach – and helpful to the young woman, too.

I know that some people (and this seems to apply mostly to female people – although my son also is like this) need opportunities to work through complicated problems by talking about them. It’s a “thinking out loud” sort of thing. The reflecting-without-offering-advice approach would give the young woman that opportunity without creating additional problems.