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In this episode, Laura enters the world of the three-to-five-year-old and Erikson's stage of Initiative versus Guilt. The preschooler isn't just asserting herself anymore — she's proposing herself, reaching outward with wild plans and an imagination that hasn't learned to doubt itself yet. The question underneath all of it: Is my wonder welcome here?
Laura explores why a steady stream of "not now" can quietly teach a child to stop reaching, what Conrad Baars called the gaze of wonder, and why your preschooler is, quite literally, a natural mystic.
You don't have to say yes to the tent. You just have to say yes to the wonder.
Laura explores why a steady stream of "not now" can quietly teach a child to stop reaching, what Conrad Baars called the gaze of wonder, and why your preschooler is, quite literally, a natural mystic.
You don't have to say yes to the tent. You just have to say yes to the wonder.
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