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Turns, Not Words
A running commentary isn't a conversation. Leave room for an answer. Babble counts.
Oct 12
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
Dive Deeper: Turns, Not Words
Five studies on conversational turns, children's attention, and responsive talk -- what each one shows, and where each one stops.
Oct 12
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
The Futures They Can Imagine
Children draw on past experience to imagine their futures. Our job is to expand what they can draw on, not prescribe what they should dream.
Oct 8
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
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Dive Deeper: The Futures They Can Imagine
Five studies on possible selves, the memory-imagination link, and vividness -- what each one shows, and where each one stops.
Oct 8
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
Feelings Are Built, Not Triggered
Sleep, food, and vocabulary are not background to your kid's feelings. They are ingredients.
Oct 5
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
Dive Deeper: Feelings Are Built, Not Triggered
Five sources on constructed emotion, the vocabulary programs, and naming's effect on the brain -- what each shows, and where each stops.
Oct 5
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
Call, Don't Text
Your voice lowers your kid's stress hormones. Your texts don't. "Be there" was a mechanism all along.
Oct 1
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
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Dive Deeper: Call, Don't Text
Five studies on stress buffering, the voice channel, and rebuilding the buffer -- what each one shows, and where each one stops.
Oct 1
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
September 2026
Ordinary Magic
Researchers went looking for what made resilient children special. The finding that changed the field: nothing.
Sep 28
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
Dive Deeper: Ordinary Magic
Five sources on resilience, adversity, and buffering -- what each one shows, and where each one stops.
Sep 28
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
Needed, Not Just Loved
Kids can feel adored and still feel useless. The missing ingredient has a name.
Sep 24
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
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Dive Deeper: Needed, Not Just Loved
Five sources on mattering, purpose, and being relied on -- what each one shows, and where each one stops.
Sep 24
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Victor Reinoso
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Gabriele Nicolet
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