The Challenge of Being Able to Witness What's Going on in Yourself

The mother was furious at her three-year-old son for pulling items off the lower shelves in a grocery store. "I expected my friend to give this woman a solid mother to mother talk about controlling herself," says CNN's Kelly Wallace. Instead she said, what a beautiful little boy. She could see yes, this is harmful behavior and had the wisdom to respond from above the line rather than a reaction that would have just kept the woman in her unconsciousness and her defensiveness.