I Love My Child, but My Child Doesn't Love Me

When you say face-heart, immediately everyone intuitively knows when you bring your heart into an experience that it's some bodily-based, emotional, feeling-based experience. The mom tries to attune to the child's biological state and then read it. She doesn't catch the feelings of the child, but she's reflecting an appreciation of the child's primary emotional state. And then that exchange becomes a means for developing emotional regulation.