Expert Q & A- Dealing with a shy child

When a parent describes her child as "shy," I usually ask , "So what were you like when you were growing up." 99% of the time, the parent, almost sheepishly, describes herself or the child's father as having been some form shy (painfully shy, horribly shy, debilitating shy, hiding-behind-my- mother shy).

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