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When Children Ask About Family Patterns

My daughter asked me why great-grandpa was so mean and I realized I don't know how to explain generational trauma to a seven-year-old.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The challenge of age-appropriate truth-telling about family dysfunction requires balancing protection with understanding.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Generational trauma — identifying and interrupting?”

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