🧠💛 Attunement isn’t just “being there”—it’s the moment-by-moment tuning in to your child’s emotions, needs, and signals.⁠

From a neurodevelopmental perspective, when a caregiver consistently reflects a child’s inner world—naming feelings, offering safety, and helping organize overwhelming experiences—the child begins to form a coherent sense of self.⁠

This is how emotional regulation develops. This is how identity forms.⁠

Relational safety becomes the blueprint for internal stability.⁠

🌀 So when your child is dysregulated, don’t rush to fix or quiet them. Try to understand. Ask, *“What’s this behavior trying to communicate?”*⁠

Because long before children can explain how they feel, they need someone who can feel with them.⁠

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* The information provided is for self-enrichment and not intended to replace any necessary mental health treatment.⁣

Warmly,

Jonathan Dixon, LMFT
Alpha Omega