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Denise Healy

Denise Healy

Co-Founder and CEO of Streets2Schools, Inc., psychologist, and domestic violence prevention researcher with a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy.

Aug 3, 2026

9:09
And so what do you think the best way to do that? I mean, is really just to zip it?
9:16
Actually, to grin and bear it or to zip it and bear it is probably, it's like a pressure cooker.
9:23
That doesn't always work.
9:25
We are visual human beings.
9:27
So a pre-strategy to active listening is to avert your eyes, to have your children or even adults just to look down.
9:37
because it disconnects, then you can ask yourself the what question.
9:42
Now, there's a lot of science about the what question.

8 MINS LATER

18:00
What else can we do to help diffuse heated situations with our kids, whether it's between us and the child or siblings, you know, anything?

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