08/01/2026
“Good job! ….”You did great!”. Limits the conversation. It stops it with a smile. Your child wants you to be curious, they want to build their inner story and joy through you having meaningful conversations with them.
Research on attachment, resilience, and positive parent-child relationships consistently finds that small moments of connection repeated over time have a greater impact than occasional grand gestures.
Your relationship is one of the greatest protective factors for your child’s lifelong mental health.
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Notice what they did to get there and what they are feeling.
“You did this, that was a great decision, how do you feel? “
“You worked so hard at this, it looks amazing”
“It looks like you tried your very best today.”
“How does it make you feel to make a good decision?”
“That took courage”
