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When you give a child paper and a pencil, what emerges is not merely a drawing. Those lines, those colors, those arrangements are in fact a map of the child’s emotions, fears, and hopes—things they cannot yet express in words. Young children cannot articulate their feelings in sentences the way adults do. Instead of saying “I feel insecure today,” they might draw a tiny house or forget the windows. Instead of saying “I feel alone in my family,” they position themselves in the corner of the famil