When can we move past the idea that a child is just naughty or behaving badly to understand trauma may have impacted this child’s learning and behavior? I have worked with many children who were constantly in fight or flight mode.

We are 18 months and counting into the pandemic and as parents, we continue to balance mandates and unknowns for our children, sometimes day by day. Keeping up with communication coming from school and other places has become a job in and of itself.

You know what...it is exhausting!

You know what else...it is ok to recognize your exhaustion.

When a significant event occurs such as divorce, the death of a parent, or physical and/or mental abuse we tell ourselves that the “children are resilient and will pull through.” Children are resilient, but they still need tools that will help them cope with the trauma. Often what we believe are children being resilient is really a child packing away what happened and not addressing their feelings.