Long before your child can weigh up a situation for themselves, they are reading you. Not your words. Your face, your shoulders, the speed of your voice. What social referencing is, why a blank face is not a neutral one, and how to use your own body language on purpose.
Mikaela Winter · Oct 8 · 6 min read
Your child insists the broken cracker is the problem. It isn't really about the cracker. When a nervous system detects threat the thinking brain goes offline, the feeling brain takes over, and no amount of reasoning reaches it until the lid comes back down. How to tell whether you're in a teaching moment or not, and what actually helps while you wait.
Mikaela Winter · Sep 21 · 5 min read
