IN THIS CHAPTER

How to deal with exclusion

  1. Don’t make a big deal out of it.

  2. Remember each person’s right to say No

  3. If the child is sad or angry, then tend to him/her if he/she lets you

  4. You might want to find something to do for the two of you that both of you enjoy doing

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  • When Billy, aged five, told me to get out of his birthday party because I hadn’t been invited, I went at once without hesitation - just as Bily gets out of my room when I don’t want his company.

    A.S. Neil, Summerhill School