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Comfort them or let them tough it out? How parents shape a child’s pain response

  • Written by Joshua Pate, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney
Comfort them or let them tough it out? How parents shape a child’s pain responseAtlantic Ambience/Pexels

It happens in slow motion. Your six-year-old daughter is sprinting across the playground at school drop-off time when her toe catches on uneven ground. She goes down hard.

The playground goes silent. She freezes and looks up, straight at you. In that split second she scans your face for data. Should she be terrified?

I’v...

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