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Episode 39: With That In Mind | Understanding and Coaching Emotions in Babies and Young Children with Dr. Megan and Early Childhood Expert, Sue George

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Dr. Megan explains that shame, embarrassment, and guilt are different emotions with different effects on children.

1. With That In Mind Podcast episode 39 focuses on understanding and coaching emotions in babies and young children. 2. Dr. Megan Velozorzi, a psychologist and owner of Redbird Mental Health, hosts with Sue George, who brings experience as a mother, grandmother, teacher, and Keystone STARS worker. 3. The episode asks how parents can recognize distress early and teach children the words for what they feel. 4. Sue George says babies show emotion through crying, body movement, facial expression, and gestures before they can talk. 5. Dr. Megan says adults should match those cues with words like "I see you're crying" or "I see that you're hungry." 6. The conversation says holding babies and using a sing-song voice can soothe both the child and the caregiver. 7. Dr. Megan says research shows more holding before six months is linked with more independence after six months. 8. The episode connects that early care to trust, self-nurturing, and later self-regulation. 9. Sue George says timeout is not appropriate under age three and should not mean leaving a child alone without coping tools. 10. She uses a grocery store tantrum to show why adults may need to step away, stay calm, and explain what happened later. 11. Dr. Megan describes taking away attention during a timeout as a way to signal that hitting a sibling is not acceptable. 12. The guests say children can begin to say things like "I need a break" or "I'm going to my room" around age three or four. 13. Dr. Megan separates happiness, distress, interest, sadness, anger, surprise, disgust, fear, embarrassment, shame, and guilt into different developmental patterns. 14. She says babies can show fear around three or four months through screaming, withdrawal, or startling at loud noises. 15. Sue George says embarrassment often appears around age two, while shame is closer to age three. 16. Dr. Megan says adults who use shame to keep children quiet can make it harder for children to report harm. 17. The tone is practical and clinical, with direct parenting examples, developmental language, and frequent back-and-forth between host and guest. 18. The format is an interview with coaching guidance, real family scenarios, and references to research and child development. 19. Parents of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers who want concrete emotion-coaching language. 20. Listeners wanting celebrity interviews or entertainment-heavy conversation.

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