Understanding Your Child: Development & Empathy
Decode behaviour, understand development, and see the world through your child's eyes
Your child isn't trying to make your life difficult. They're trying to navigate a world that's confusing, overwhelming, and full of big feelings they don't have words for yet. These games help you understand what's actually happening in their brain and body at each stage, so you can respond to the child in front of you, not the one you wish they were. Understanding changes everything.
Development Detective Quiz
Know what's age appropriate, spot red flags, and adjust your expectations
How It Works
You'll see child behaviours that worry or frustrate parents. Your job? Identify which age range this behaviour is developmentally normal for. Learn to distinguish "this is hard but typical" from "we might need support."
🍼 TODDLER
18 months - 3 years
🎨 EARLY CHILDHOOD
3 - 6 years
📚 MIDDLE CHILDHOOD
6 - 10 years
🎧 TWEEN/EARLY TEEN
10 - 14 years
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Temperament Matcher
Understand your child's wiring, not change it
How It Works
Every child is born with a unique temperament, nine traits that shape how they experience the world. This isn't about labels, it's about understanding. You'll see scenarios and identify which temperament trait is at play.
The Nine Temperament Traits:
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Limbic Leap Decoder
Know when your child's thinking brain is online or offline
How It Works
Your child has two brain systems that take turns being in charge. The upstairs brain (prefrontal cortex) handles thinking, planning, and empathy. The downstairs brain (limbic system) handles survival, emotion, and impulse. You'll see scenarios and identify which brain is in control.
🧩 Upstairs Brain
Prefrontal Cortex: Thinking, reasoning, empathy, impulse control, planning. This is where learning happens.
⚡ Downstairs Brain
Limbic System: Survival mode, fight/flight/freeze, big emotions, reactive. Reason doesn't work here.
Critical Rule: Don't try to reason, teach, or problem-solve when the downstairs brain is in charge. Co-regulate first, then connect, then teach.
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Why Kids Resist
Decode the need beneath the behaviour
How It Works
All behaviour is communication. When kids resist, refuse, or act out, they're telling you something they can't say with words. Your job is to decode the underlying need. You'll see resistance scenarios and identify what the child is really asking for.
The Four Core Needs:
Key Insight: When you meet the underlying need, the resistance disappears. Behaviour is the symptom, unmet needs are the cause.
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