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Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children

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By Bryan Mellonie, Robert Ingpen — 1983

When the death of a relative, a friend, or a pet happens or is about to happen . . . how can we help a child to understand? Lifetimes is a moving book for children of all ages, even parents too. It lets us explain life and death in a sensitive, caring, beautiful way. See more...

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Raising Resilient Adolescents with Erica Komisar

In this class, psychoanalyst and author Erica Komisar discusses the science behind raising resilient adolescents, an age group that is facing more mental distress than ever. Ms.

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Peter Levine Interview: Trauma Proofing Your Kids

Peter discusses how parents can help their children with the stresses of current events.

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Teaching Children to Calm Themselves

When Luke gets angry, he tries to remember to look at his bracelet. It reminds him of what he can do to calm himself: stop, take a deep breath, count to four, give yourself a hug and, if necessary, ask an adult for help.

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3 Great Untruths to Stop Telling Kids and Ourselves | Jonathan Haidt | Big Think

Popular platitudes can squash your critical thinking, argues moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt. Always trust your feelings? The world is a battle between good and evil? These popular pieces of conventional wisdom are merely myths—ones that can set us up for failure.

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The Fragile Generation

Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.

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By Mollycoddling Our Children, We’re Fueling Mental Illness In Teenagers

Of course we want to keep children safe. But exposure to normal stresses and strains is vital for their future wellbeing.

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This Is How Parents Pass Trauma Down to Children - Fear Not with Iyanla Vanzant - OWN

Educator Dr. Steve Perry explains how parents can unknowingly pass down harmful messages to their children and cause lifelong trauma in the process.

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The Long Shadow

If the threats we encounter are extreme, persistent, or frequent, we become too sensitized, overreacting to minor challenges and sometimes experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

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THE BODY MAPPING TOOL

THE BODY MAPPING TOOL This Resource-book is a collection of animations and short videos that present different tools to support children in their peace building activities.

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The Drama of the Gifted Child

The wisdom that Alice Miller shares with us in her famous book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, is something that every therapist who works with children revisits more often than we would like.

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Helping Children Deal with Emotions