When kids spend time with the most important people in their life, they develop important relational skills like communicating and listening well, interpreting facial expressions, understanding nonverbal communication, sharing, and sacrificing.

For parent-figures reading this, it’s important to remind yourself that children exceed us in their connection to their intuition and their core Self. As adults, we easily get lost in our own steady stream of thoughts. Children are still highly intuitive, their world is in flux, still being formed. In providing a secure and open space for your chil

The second important thing about the influence of other people is that the most significant behavior seems almost entirely unintentional. Parents don’t deliberately set out to imitate their babies or to speak motherese; it’s just what comes naturally. Our instinctive behaviors toward babies and babies’ instinctive behaviors toward us combine to ena