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What is Your Inner Child's Artist Type?

Knowing your inner child’s artist type can be deeply beneficial on several levels, because it reconnects you with the spontaneous, unfiltered part of yourself that first experienced creativity before rules, expectations, or external judgments came in. This 90-second quiz reveals your unique creative blueprint-the way your inner child naturally expresses joy, imagination, and originality. In just a couple of clicks, you’ll uncover the hidden strengths that make you most alive… and learn how to reignite that spark right now.

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We explain everything to our kids now. Bedtime. Rules. Shoes. Feelings. Consequences. Every action comes with a TED Talk. And somehow, nothing happens faster.

This video reveals what happens when explanation replaces authority, why children now wait for justification before acting, how delay becomes the safest move because it brings more negotiation, and why talking more doesn't build capacity — exposure does. You'll discover how we mistook articulation for strength, why naming a feeling isn't the same as carrying it, how children learn to scan for renegotiation instead of moving forward, and why life doesn't ask if they understand — it asks if they can stand.

You'll learn why persuasion is fragile and collapses the moment it fails, how we're asking logic from beings operating almost entirely on reaction, why the body only learns through staying — not through words, and how supporting your child sometimes means staying still and letting the moment press back without a translator.

This isn't about talking less. It's about talking less at the wrong moments. Because one day, no one will be there to explain. And your child will need to act anyway.

✨ Free Quiz: What is Your Inner Child's Artist Type?
Discover your unique creative blueprint in 90 seconds.
👉 https://the-vessel.involve.me/what-is-your-inner-childs-artist-type

Chapters:
00:00 — Chapter 1: The Age of Explanation
03:20 — Chapter 2: When Talk Replaced Authority
04:10 — Chapter 3: The Absurdity We No Longer Notice
05:02 — Chapter 4: When Children Learn to Wait
06:48 — Chapter 5: The Body Never Got the Message
07:40 — Chapter 6: Children Are Not Mini-Adults
08:41 — Chapter 7: We Mistook Articulation for Strength
09:26 — Chapter 8: What We Actually Took Away

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Why Explaining Everything Makes Kids Weaker

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We made childhood safer, kinder, more emotionally attuned than ever before. So why can't kids handle frustration anymore?

This video explores the uncomfortable question no one wants to ask out loud: what if we gave children exactly what we wanted for them… and it wasn't what they needed?

You'll learn why tying their shoes "because it's faster" compounds over years into learned helplessness, how anticipating meltdowns and removing triggers prevents the lesson that says "I survived this," why potential without traction isn't spoiled or weak — just untrained, and how the childhood we're perfecting might be making adulthood harder than it needs to be.

✨ Free Quiz: What is Your Inner Child's Artist Type?
Discover your unique creative blueprint in 90 seconds.
👉 https://the-vessel.involve.me/what-is-your-inner-childs-artist-type

Chapters:
00:00 — Intro
00:10 — Chapter 1: Something Feels Off
01:42 — Chapter 2: Safety Didn't Deliver What We Expected
03:06 — Chapter 3: A Different Kind of Childhood
04:03 — Chapter 4: When We Started Stepping In
05:49 — Chapter 5: Comfort Took the Place of Capacity
06:36 — Chapter 6: What Fragility Actually Looks Like
07:39 — Chapter 7: What Real Gentleness Actually Asks of Us

This is for parents willing to ask hard questions and rethink what protection really means. The answers might change everything.

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There's Something Deeply Wrong With How We Raise Our Kids

1 weeks ago

✨ Free Quiz: What is Your Inner Child's Artist Type?
Discover your unique creative blueprint in 90 seconds.
👉 https://the-vessel.involve.me/what-is-your-inner-childs-artist-type

Your child's anger isn't defiance. It isn't disrespect. And it isn't what you've been trained to see.

This video reveals what anger actually is in a child's developing brain — a protective reflex, a shield for emotions they can't name, and a signal that something deeper is burning underneath. You'll discover why anger is never the first feeling but always the last, how fear disguises itself as aggression and shame looks like "I don't care," why matching your child's intensity accidentally confirms their deepest fear, and how one shift in your presence can break the cycle that's been passed down for generations.

You'll learn why children don't say "I feel dysregulated" but instead slam doors and kick chairs, how your nervous system becomes the ground beneath their storm, why anger isn't the problem but the pathway to the real emotion, and how meeting intensity with grounded calm teaches your child the lesson every human needs: their feelings don't make them unlovable.

This is for parents who are tired of fighting the fire and ready to see what's beneath it. The real child has been waiting there all along.

Chapters:
00:00 — Chapter 1: The Moment You Misread the Fire
01:10 — Chapter 2: Inside the Nervous System of a Child
02:26 — Chapter 3: The Shield That Anger Builds
03:55— Chapter 4: The Loop That Escalates Everything
05:-2 — Chapter 5: The Shift: What Your Child Actually Needs
06:53 — Chapter 6: Anger as a Doorway to the Real Child
08:02 — Chapter 7: The Parent as the True Regulator
09:24 — Chapter 8: The Real Meaning of the Fire

Your child's anger is a call — not an attack. When you answer it with presence instead of punishment, everything changes.

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