Role-play with your child. Come up with scenarios that your child may face and have them practice using assertive phrases while you respond to them. Then you can reverse roles and have the child ...

Many of the brilliant phrases highly intelligent women use at work that other people think are rude are the same ones that ...

Classy people, I’ve noticed, have a knack for this. They can communicate their limits in a way that respects both themselves and the other person. This is about persuasion, not enforcement. It’s about ...