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You do not need perfect words. Children cope better with simple, honest explanations and a steady adult than with silence or soft phrases that leave them confused and afraid.
Scanxiety is not weakness or catastrophising. It is what an uncertain, high-stakes wait does to a normal nervous system. You cannot control the result, but you can shape the waiting.
We do not remember experiences as an average. We remember their most intense moment and how they ended. The peak-end rule explains a lot about memory, and gives you a few simple levers.
Feeling unheard is lonely. The reasons are often more ordinary than indifference: distraction, stress, defensiveness or different ideas of what listening means. Here is how to tell which, and what to do.
