The Whole-Brain Child

they’ll be trapped in black and white, like old TV reruns we watch
over and over again. When they have a full emotional palette, they
are able to experience the vivid Technicolor that a deep and
vibrant emotional life allows. This teaching takes place, again, in
your everyday interactions with your kids, and it begins before
they can even talk. I know it’s disappointing that you can’t have the
candy. Then as they get older you can increasingly introduce them
to more subtleties of emotion. I’m sorry your ski trip got canceled. If
that happened to me, I’d be feeling all kinds of things: mad,
disappointed, hurt, let down. What else?