Quotes About Connection

teach reflection, relationships, and resilience.

Utiliza los momentos de disciplina como oportunidades para enseñar y crear aptitudes. Modela la amabilidad, el respeto y el cuidado de uno mismo. Discúlpate cuando pierdas una oportunidad de conectar o metas la pata de otra manera. Ellos

Kids whose parents talk to them about their feelings also develop a more robust emotional intelligence and can therefore be better at noticing and understanding their own and other people's feelings. Neurons that fire together wire together, changing the changeable brain.

activate them in a moment of distress by first connecting before redirecting.

When children are securely attached to their parents, they feel safe enough to test that relationship. In

The key to clinical attunement is to be willing to say "I don't know" and "tell me more." Your intention to help, a neural stance of positive regard likely involving the social engagement system and having a desire to connect and to assist, is woven together with an interest in supporting another with kindness and

El mindsight aparece cuando nuestra comunicación, con los demás y con nosotros mismos, nos ayuda a reflexionar sobre quiénes somos y sobre lo que sucede en nuestro interior.

recae en ti la responsabilidad de aprender a ofrecer tu presencia de formas que te empoderen en grado sumo a ti como progenitor y fomenten en tu hijo la resiliencia y la fortaleza. Es este poder de la presencia lo que nos permite crear una mente empoderada para nuestros hijos… incluso si metemos la pata con regularidad.

las experiencias que proporciones en el contexto de la relación con tu hijo moldearán literalmente la estructura física de su cerebro.

When we become parents we are given an incredible opportunity to grow as individuals because we ourselves are put back into an intimate parent-child relationship, this time in a different role.

I'm with you. I've got your back. Even when you're at your worst and I don't like the way you're acting, I love you, and I'm here for you. I understand you're having a hard time, and I am here.

Estar presentes crea por tanto en nuestros hijos vías neurales que conducen a la identidad individual, la determinación, la fortaleza y la resiliencia.

more directly influenced by the body and lower brain areas,

Un niño puede tener un apego evitativo en su relación con un progenitor y, aun así, disfrutar de un apego seguro, junto con los beneficios correspondientes, con otro cuidador.

Daniel J. Siegel

You can't spoil your children by giving them too much of yourself.

Mindsight and The Developing Mind,

Recuerda: la clave está en reparar, reparar, reparar. No existe la paternidad perfecta.

La «cantidad de tiempo» sí importa. Claro que sí. Pero ver a un niño va más allá de la mera presencia física. Conlleva estar en sintonía con lo que sucede dentro de ellos y centrar realmente la atención en sus sentimientos, pensamientos y recuerdos íntimos, lo que sea que pase por sus mentes, que subyazga a su comportamiento.

How we respond to our children when we're not happy with their choices—with loving guidance? with irritation and criticism? with fury and a shaming outburst?—will impact the development of our relationship with them, and even their own sense of self.

tuning in to her emotions. That attunement helped her "feel felt

We can likely grow those soothing fibers that extend from the prefrontal upstairs brain into the downstairs brain.

How intention glows determines where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural and interpersonal connection grow.

at these moments, logic isn't our primary vehicle for bringing some sort of