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A recent headline stopped me in my tracks: "Kids' 'frozen faces' prompt calls for warnings on screen times as toddlers struggle to show emotion."
As a professional, I understood it was designed to grab attention. As a mother, I felt that familiar stab of fear and guilt. Here was another thing I was being blamed for.
If you're anything like me and the hundreds of parents I've worked with over 25 years as a paediatric speech pathologist, you probably felt that too. Those thoughts creeping in: Am I doing enough? Am I ruining my child?
Here's what those fear-based articles don't tell you: Fear without a path forward doesn't create change. It creates paralysis. And when you're already stretched thin, already feeling guilty, already dysregulated from managing everything—adding more shame just pushes you deeper into survival mode.
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