Dear Dad

🧠【Dr. Yoshi’s Neuroscience Message: To All the Hardworking Dads】

Dear Dad,

During adolescence, your child may seem like they’re pushing you away

but in truth, they’re watching you more than ever.

 

Why?

 

Because during this stage, the brain’s social evaluation network

and self-recognition system are rapidly developing.

 

At this time, teens become:

✔️ Highly sensitive to how others see them

✔️ Preoccupied with how they’re perceived

✔️ Actively shaping their core identity

 

That’s why—

a father’s gaze plays a critical role in shaping a child’s sense of self-worth.

 

👨‍👧When a father silently conveys,

“I believe in you” —just through his eyes—

🧠 it builds a neural circuit of safety and courage in the prefrontal cortex.

 

But if a child receives a look of

👎 disappointment, criticism, or emotional distance,

the amygdala becomes overactive, fueling anxiety and self-doubt.

 

📌 What adolescents need most isn’t lectures or life lessons it’s a quiet, steady gaze that says “I see you.”

 

That gaze becomes the strongest neurological support for developing a brain capable of making self-directed choices.

 

Even when they look away or rebel, they feel it.

It’s reaching them.

That’s the truth of the adolescent brain.

 

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