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Sharing – Kids Who Witness Domestic Violence May Suffer Mentally for Decades
Despite childhood trauma’s disadvantages, kids can recover after childhood trauma and live perfectly healthy, successful lives. They need help. They need a support system and people there to help them navigate it, but childhood trauma is not, as we often hear a life sentence.
I wish we would talk about this more. Survivors could use the reminder.
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Sharing – Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent’s Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age
We would do well with more of this question and a deeper analysis of “says who” and less outrage. They won’t make it easy for us to do that, so we will have to do it for ourselves, and we’re going to have to teach the next generation.
Otherwise we will continue to see social media eat away at our mental health instead of being a tool that could help it by providing us with a community of people with shared interests.
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Reviews Elsewhere – The Strange & Curious Guide to Trauma by Sally Donovan
I came across this review when someone shared it on social media, and it got picked up and passed around a bit. The review is from the Foster Talk page, which is aimed at Foster families and intersects the topics here when we talk about childhood trauma. Ruth Willets shared this about the book, which might be of interest to many of you who have teens and kids who have experienced trauma, or maybe even some young adults who could use some help understanding what trauma does to us.
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Shared Links (weekly) April 27, 2022
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Trolls make up fake stories of parents forcing kids to be trans to fuel moral panic– To quote myself from a few years ago – “How much of the internet is fake? Almost all of it”
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Campus Mental Health Services Have to Be More Inclusive of LGBTQ+ Students
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The Four “R’s” for Hope and Healing
Saw someone share this yesterday and, after some time looking through it, decided it was definitely worth sharing. It’s from Lauren’s Kids page, and it has a ton of information about what they are calling the four “R’s”
Recognize
Report
Respond
Recover
