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What is a Hungry Duck Request?

March 12, 2021 By Mary Kay Reinemann

Marshall Rosenberg tells the story of when he first began to practice making requests instead of demands with his children. He quickly realized that what he was doing was so novel that even when he fully intended to make a request of his children, they would hear it as a demand and respond in their […]

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