A toddler stumbles, and in the microseconds before response, the child's nervous system queries the room—not consciously, but older than thought, faster than language. What returns isn't instruction but resonance. The caregiver's face, breath, the quality of space they hold. The child's system decides whether to code this as catastrophe or navigation. This isn't learned. It's caught, the way one flame lights another. We talk about teaching children, but what we're really doin