You're Not Disconnected From Your Child. Just Speaking Different Languages. One of the most common things parents say when they reach out for support - and I hear versions of this regularly in clinical work - is some variant of: I feel like we are losing each other. I try to connect and I can't get through.
If you have ever said "calm down" to a child in the middle of a meltdown, you already know it doesn't work. What you might not know is why - and why knowing the why completely changes what you do instead.
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