Suffering Passed On: Child Abuse
Check this out... Only one third of abused children go on to become abusers. Revealingly, the majority of that group deny they had been abused when they were kids. In one study, 75% of adult male abusers described events like being beaten black and blue and thrown into a basement and then said the punishment was deserved because they had been such a bad kid. To understand their denial, consider the dilemma of a small child confronted by an out-of-control adult. The child i
Quora: How can I explain to my toddler about our pet dog dying?
First, I'm so sorry about the loss of your dog. As you go through this, there are probably some good opportunities to parent. Three rules of thumb:
1) Emotional training is as important as cognitive training. The loss of a loved one is an opportunity to discuss and validate emotions with your son. In order to become competent with our emotional selves it helps to have vocabulary and to tie that vocabulary to embodied feelings. There are many words for types of sad: disap
