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Is Everything Ok? A Call to Be Vulnerable, for Your Child & You

Is Everything Ok? A Call to Be Vulnerable, for Your Child & You by Katarina Wallentin. Photograph of a sad mother and child holding each other by Jordan Whitt
Photograph by Jordan Whitt

To nurture your child’s intuition and validate their feelings, try being real vs. perfect. You’ll find you both win in the process

Most children are like walking talking radio receivers! They pick up on everything and are extremely (sometimes irritatingly) aware of what goes on around them, spoken or unspoken. And in contrast to all of us, children have not yet learned to

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