The word I said during the tantrum that made everything worse…
A personal moment about the word I chose during a meltdown, and what it quietly revealed about how my child is wired and when your toddler pushes back on an emotion label, it feels like failure. It’s actually nervous system data.
In this podcast, I share the moment I said the right word at the wrong time for my son’s specific temperament, and what the research on toddler emotional wiring says about why it went the way it did.
And if your child escalates when you try to name what they’re feeling, this is for you.
