Your Child’s Mouth Is Telling a Story, Are You Listening? Your child’s mouth is more than teeth it’s a window into their nervous system. Tongue posture is central to this. When the tongue rests low or doesn’t press against the roof of the mouth, it alters facial development, disrupts breathing, and throws off posture. What looks like crowded teeth or a soft jaw is often the body adapting to poor input. The nervous system doesn’t wait it compensates. And those compensations show up early in the f