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🧠 Use this is a skill to stop enabling your child’s cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions are faulty ways of thinking that can quickly lead to harmful and inaccurate conclusions. An example of a cognitive distortion includes discounting the positives where the person magnifies and only acknowledges the negatives in their life while actively refusing to acknowledge any positive things in their life. 👉One of the most common ways that adults enable kids’ cognitive distortions is by using v