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can approach anyone, but only as long

as I’m behind a journalist’s notebook.”

Sarah’s reaction is not unusual for

the pseudo-extrovert parent of a shy

child, says Miller. Not only is Sarah reliving

her own childhood, but she’s projecting

onto Ava the worst of her own

memories. But Sarah needs to understand

that she and Ava are not the

same person, even if they do seem to

have inherited similar temperaments.

For one thing, Ava is influenced by her

father, too, and by any number of environmental

factors, so her temperament

is bound to have a different expression.

Sarah’s own distress need not

be her daughter’s, and it does Ava a

great disservice to assume that it will

be. With the right guidance, Ava may

get to the point where her shyness is

nothing more than a small and infrequent

annoyance.

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