My sister and I are both raising kids with trauma backgrounds and she keeps judging my 'soft' approach while I think her traditional consequences are retraumatizing — and now our kids are picking up on the tension between us.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people with shared family history are discovering that their approaches to breaking intergenerational cycles are fundamentally at odds, and their children are witnessing the same kind of family discord they're each trying to heal.
“Where Are You with Trauma-informed parenting?”
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