- How you feel
When we are emotional, our mama bear instinct is to conceal our feelings so they don’t negatively affect our children.
Although noble, this reaction can make children feel a sense of shame expressing their own emotions, or they will not learn from you how to correctly process what they feel.
Shanna Donhauser, a child and family therapist, reported to Romper:
“Children are incredibly intuitive and young children especially look to their parents a lot throughout the day, gauging the world through their parents’ affective states. If you’re frustrated, annoyed, sad, or disappointed, take an opportunity to explain the emotion, the word for the emotion, and the context.”