There is a moment most parents remember clearly, the first time they watched their toddler reach out to another child, offer a toy, or simply sit beside someone without being told to. It feels small, almost unremarkable in the middle of a busy day. But what is actually happening in that moment is anything but small. Social skills do not arrive in a toddler’s life fully formed. They are built slowly, quietly, and almost always through lived experience, through bumps,