Batch Batchelder

E M O T I O N R E G U L A T I O N While certainly no human is emotionally regulated all the time, adults with secure attachment have a pretty wide capacity for staying regulated in the face of their child’s dysregulation. This is super important because if a crying baby (dysregulated) always created significant dysregulation in their caregiver, the... See more

A reminder from Atomic Habits:

"Time will multiply whatever you feed it.

Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy."

Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and

affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you

command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and

varied changes of this world, our hearts may surely there be fixed

where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord,

who lives and reigns with you... See more

Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”

Children become attached to whoever functions as their primary caregiver. But the nature of that attachment—whether it is secure or insecure—makes a huge difference over the course of a child’s life. Secure attachment develops when caregiving includes emotional attunement. Attunement starts at the most subtle physical levels of interaction between

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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."

Source: Words to the Wise (hat tip to Dylan O'Sullivan )

The best way to achieve freedom is to take responsibility for the actions you’re taking. And the best way to be clear that you’re taking responsibility is to highlight the externalities and own them.

Because of their own attachment experiences and the accompanying neurobiology, the caregiver feels their baby’s distress and begins to have their own distress. In a way, the baby’s distress and the caregiver’s distress begins to merge.

The truth is that we live in a hostile

environment, if we have eyes to

see it. “Egypt”—a symbol of the

spiritual, political, theological, and

economic forces of deadly evil—is

not somewhere far off; it lies close

at hand (see Rev. 18). In Egypt, God

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is what you want. In Egypt, luxury

is a right, at least... See more