You know, I don’t think it’s touchy-feely. I think women who are the more vulnerable sex - and the mother of children - have a biological gene to read people more accurately than men. I’m not saying men have no ability to read people but women generally do it better. Generally. We all make mistakes.
You got a point there — the gender that the good Lord has appointed to closely nurture children, would need to be able to read them. Of course mothers can get wild hairs and muff the job in spite of that, but that’s their fault and not the good Lord’s fault when they do. Unfortunately it’s also often a tragedy to the children. And yet the good Lord inspired the psalmist to say “If my mother and father forsake me, the Lord shall take me up.” The One who put parents there is not caught flat footed if they fail.