A ten-year-old can walk through your door with a ten-year-old body, and a much younger child still living inside it.

Trauma freezes development. It doesn't erase it — it just stalls it.

If you've ever asked yourself what's wrong with this kid, this episode asks a better question instead.

In this episode, Sherman and Semise Daley walk through why a child's chronological age and developmental age often don't match, especially after trauma, loss, or disruption. Using MRM's External / Internal / Philosophical framework, they show what's really underneath a child's hardest behavior, and why the Regulate, Relate, Reflect sequence has to come before correction ever works.

What we cover:
• Why a child's chronological age and developmental age often don't match, especially after trauma, loss, or disruption
• MRM's External / Internal / Philosophical framework, applied to what's really underneath a child's hardest behavior
• The Regulate, Relate, Reflect sequence, and why correction before connection never works
• What Psalm 103, Romans 8, Ephesians 6, and 1 Thessalonians 2 were already teaching about parenting a child's actual frame, long before the research caught up
• The numbers behind the teaching — roughly 332,000 children in the U.S. foster care system, and the training approach that cut incident reports by 93.5% in two years
• 3 practical steps to try this week, starting with the one sentence to say before you say anything else

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:45 Name the Shift
6:30 What We've Seen
10:30 What the Research Found, Scripture Already Knew
15:30 Path Forward
19:00 Close + Next Step

Key Scriptures:
Psalm 103:13-14 · Romans 8:15 · Ephesians 6:4 · 1 Thessalonians 2:7-8, 11-12

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