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Episode 2,How Mentalization Grows
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Your child isn’t learning emotional skills from your best lecture. They’re learning from what it feels like when they’re scared, angry, or overwhelmed and you respond. We dig into how mentalization forms: the lifelong ability to understand ourselves and others in terms of thoughts, feelings, wishes, and intentions, and why it grows through experience long before a child has words.
We walk through the “ordinary” moments that are actually doing the heavy lifting, like a baby who startles and a parent who notices and helps them settle. Drawing on Peter Fonagy and Mary Target, we…
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