2. Language Shapes Experience

Emotion coaching builds emotional intelligence through:

• Recognizing all feelings as valid
• Helping children name emotions
• Listening without rushing to fix
• Supporting problem-solving skills
• Building emotional vocabulary

Certain words having different vowel pronunciations went through natural, unchecked pronouncing or spelling mutations, establishing themselves in the vocabulary due to the number of people using them, something which came to be known as the great vowel shift.

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• Soft language: it uses “I” statements and focuses on the actions that took place, how they made us feel, and what we want to happen.
• Hard language: it starts with a generic hyperbole like “You always…” or “Why do you never…”