Understanding Behavior as Communication

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We talk with early childhood development expert Barbara Streeter about "the inner life of children": The ideas and emotions they have, but without the life experience or vocabulary to understand them. So diffficult thoughts get acted out through troubling behavior.

As adults, we can't offer the help and reassurance they need until we figure out what's really behind the behavior.