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Children and Trauma

How to Talk to a Child About a Parent's Addiction

David Sack, M.D. | Posted 04.02.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Children and Trauma, Dysfunctional Families, Coping With Addiction, Family Counseling, Children of Addicts, Addiction and Recovery, Children of Alcoholics, Children Mental Health, Healthy Living News
David Sack, M.D.

In this impossible situation, what can parents, caretakers or other adults say to their children? How do they explain the wreckage of addiction to someone who, at a young age, has already been overexposed to some of the darkest potentialities of life?

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My Body Is at my Desk, My Mind Is in CT

Rachel Blaufeld | Posted 02.17.2013 | Parents
Read More: Gun Violence, Adam Lanza, School Shooting, Newtown School Shooting, Parents Sandy Hook, Newtown Elementary School Shooting, Parents-Moms, Kaitlin Roig, Children and Trauma, Overcoming Trauma, Trauma, Handling Grief, Heroes, Newtown Heroes, Parents News
Rachel Blaufeld

For a period of time, we forgot about online predators and scary people lurking around the mall, and instead re-evaluated that the one place where we send our kids to learn, socialize and grow up is not without risk.

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Three Cheers for Healthy Helicopter Parents

Sheela Raja, PhD | Posted 12.17.2012 | Parents
Read More: Parenting, Helicopter Parents, Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Children and Trauma, Overprotective, Child Abuse, Parenting Advice, Jessica Ridgeway, Bullying, Child Abduction, Parents News
Sheela Raja, PhD

We aren't overprotective, we're involved. And we are here to stay

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