Adults co-regulate with each other too. We always have. That friend who can hold a crisis without panicking. The colleague who makes you feel steadier just by sitting across from you. The person who lets you say the thing that's actually true without making you manage their reaction to it.

Everything I teach in Positive Discipline at its absolute core is about this kind of attunement. Women who teach and parent well are already doing the attunement that Positive Discipline formalizes. They were doing it before anyone gave it a name.

What they haven't been given is recognition that it is work. Real work.

I started Women's Month planning to write something polished. A proper opening post. Something that felt finished and confident and, you know, appropriately celebratory.

And then I sat down to write it and what came out instead was this: I am still figuring so much out.