{"id":1553,"date":"2025-03-17T18:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T18:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/?page_id=1553"},"modified":"2025-03-17T18:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T18:11:14","slug":"transcript-clinton-co-regulation-and-the-external-brain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/transcript-clinton-co-regulation-and-the-external-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript Clinton \u2013 co-regulation and the external brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When babies are born and in the first couple of years of life, the baby is completely helpless and any emotion; babies have emotion, they absolutely do have emotion, and any emotion that they have, if it becomes overwhelming, they need to be co-regulated by that adult.&nbsp; So the adult has to be like the external brain, as it were, of the child to soothe them.&nbsp; So if we think of the brain as being comprised of billions of brain cells called neurons, they will be firing, the area, the emotional area of the brain when a baby is crying, is firing, firing, firing. They haven\u2019t made the connection to the thinking part, or they don\u2019t have procedures or memory, so they don\u2019t know how to do it, to soothe themselves.&nbsp; So they need the adult, someone who\u2019s bigger, smarter and kinder to be coming in and helping soothe them.&nbsp; That\u2019s how we need to be responding.&nbsp; So I very frequently in presentations talk about you cannot spoil a baby.&nbsp; When a baby cries, they\u2019re emitting to you the only way they know how and you need to be their big external brain and help support them.&nbsp; You\u2019re not spoiling them.&nbsp; Babies who are picked up cry less, not more.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When babies are born and in the first couple of years of life, the baby is completely helpless and any emotion; babies have emotion, they absolutely do have emotion, and any emotion that they have, if it becomes overwhelming, they need to be co-regulated by that adult.&nbsp; So the adult has to be like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1553","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1553\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}