Apparently Raphaela performs better in many areas when I am not present in the room, so yesterday I dropped her off at Speech Therapy and took a walk. When I returned a half hour later, Raphaela had just finished playing a game, and the speech therapist (Y) asked her, "Who won, you or me?"
Though Raphaela had more points than Y, she hesitated and not wanting to create hurt feelings, she then answered, "We both won."
Y insisted that Raphaela do a re-count and told her that it was OK, even good, to win a game, and it was OK, even good, to own the feeling.
Then Y told me a story about the session: in the middle of their therapy/play, Y pretended to cry because she was losing, and Raphaela got out of her chair, gave Y a big hug and said, "There there, we don't cry over a card game!"
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