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123. When Children Resist or Refuse - Part 3: Your nervous system is not an oracle
This is part 3 of our "When Children Resist or Refuse" series.
This series explores what a child's resistance or refusal might mean. When a child says no, our job isn't to immediately decide what the no proves. It's to understand what might be happening, notice what every adult is bringing to the interpretation, and work out how to respond without losing sight of the child.
What does your nervous system have to do with a child resisting or refusing time with a parent?
Quite a fucking lot, actually.
In the first two episodes of this series, we've turned our attention toward children: their…
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