Episode 2,How Mentalization Grows

About this episode

The episode explores how mentalization develops in children through emotional experiences rather than verbal instruction.

Send us Fan Mail Your child isn’t learning emotional skills from your best lecture. They’re learning from what it feels like when they’re scared, angry, or overwhelmed and you respond. We dig into how mentalization forms: the lifelong ability to understand ourselves and others in terms of thoughts, feelings, wishes, and intentions, and why it grows through experience long before a child has words. We walk through the “ordinary” moments that are actually doing the heavy lifting, like a baby w...

People in this episode

Host: Kim Lee

Topics covered

• mentalization
• emotional skills
• child development
• parenting
• understanding emotions

Keywords

• mentalization
• emotional skills
• child behavior
• parenting
• developmental psychology

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