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When trauma makes you overprotect your children

I cannot let my children be children because I am constantly scanning for danger, and I know I am stealing from them the innocence that was stolen from me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The hypervigilance born from childhood wounds creates a parenting style that perpetuates what it seeks to prevent.

Ideas that help explain it
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