26/08/2025
Valuable advice. Life has many ways to disappoint: How to react in that moment? keeping quiet in the moment speek much louder.Hold ur child. Love them.
When our children are upset, the instinct is to rush in with words. We explain, we reason, we try to fix.
We want the lesson to land so badly that we forget this: in the height of big emotions, their brain isn’t open for business.
A child in distress can’t take in logic. Their nervous system is flooded, sounding alarms, searching first for safety.
And safety isn’t found in lectures — it’s found in presence. In a calm voice. In steady arms. In the sense that I am not alone in this storm.
When we hold them — without rushing to correct or control — we’re doing more than comforting. We’re helping their nervous system regulate, showing them what it feels like to move from chaos back to calm.
Only once that storm has passed will they be able to hear the wisdom we so urgently want to give.
Connection first, correction later.
Because children don’t learn best from explanations given at full volume of emotion. They learn best when they feel safe enough to listen.
So when your child is upset: hold your child. Hold your tongue. Hold the space.
The words can wait. The love cannot. ❤️
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