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Mentoring or Grooming? What’s the Difference? January 23, 2020
Numerous mental health studies suggest that one of the best ways to help children develop resilience and recover from adverse childhood experiences is for them to have a trusted confidante outside the family. Yet we also are told that protecting children from sexual abuse requires our preventing a sexual predator from “grooming” them. The problem...
Helping Children Recover by Being a Safe Space January 21, 2020
For those of us who have traumatized children in our care, it is difficult to know how to help them. A recent study from Canada tells us that being a safe person for children to confide in may be one of the best things that we can do. The study surveyed more than 17,000 adults,...
Building Family Resilience January 16, 2020
One topic that I have been pondering lately is how families manage adversity and teach their children to be resilient. I ran across a recent study that gave me both hope and some concrete ideas for helping our children. The authors did an in-depth analysis of the National Survey of Children’s Health data from 2016...