YABUTS need to give themselves what they didn’t RECEIVE as a BABY RABBIT.
What’s MORE . . . ALL ADULT RABBITS and YABUTS need to try with all their MIGHT to stop doing traumatic things to BABY RABBITS!
They need to STOP the merry-go round of creating YABUTS!
They need to give ALL BABY RABBITS the first of each of these gifts (where SAFE) and NOT the second!
And by all means this list is not complete (Parents: Please share the ones appropriate to your child’s age and development).
ENCOURAGEMENT instead of BLAME.
UNDERSTANDING instead of CONDEMNING.
RESPONDING instead of REACTING.
CHOICES instead of COMMANDS.
COUNSELING AND COACHING instead of ABUSE—VERBAL, PHYSICAL or MENTAL.
SUPPORT instead of CRITICISM.
