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How to transmit wisdom without transmitting trauma

My kids will never know what it's like to worry about electricity getting shut off and I don't know if that's a blessing or if I'm failing to teach them something essential about resilience.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Protecting your children from hardship creates anxiety about whether they'll develop the strength and values that hardship taught you.

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