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How children trigger parental nostalgia trauma

My daughter is the same age I was when my parents divorced and I can't stop seeing my own childhood trauma in her innocent face.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Children's developmental stages can reactivate unresolved pain from corresponding periods in parents' lives.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Nostalgia — its function and its limits?”

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