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As far as I can tell, kids are called bossy when they behave in a dictatorial and domineering fashion. They__e called bossy when they try to order people around and refuse to listen to authority figures. Here__ a suggestion: instead of telling us not to refer to them as bossy, why don__ we teach them not to be bossy? We concentrate so much on eradicating negative words while forgetting to address the behavior that the words describe.
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As far as I can tell, kids are called bossy when they behave in a dictatorial and domineering fashion. They__e called bossy when they try to order people around and refuse to listen to authority figures. Here__ a suggestion: instead of telling us not to refer to them as bossy, why don__ we teach them not to be bossy? We concentrate so much on eradicating negative words while forgetting to address the behavior that the words describe.

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