Childrens resources

[fizzylem]

Hi, has anyone come across any good children’s resources to help talk about and heal from a toxic father? I think part of the problem is our childhood is normal to us, for everyone, so our children tolerate abuse as they think his behaviour is normal and also learn his behaviour. Anything on manipulation? Projections, anything related really. Have been teaching her about emotional maturity and how to process anger in a non violent way and we seem to be having a break through with this atm – thinking this will also show her that her blaming father is emotionally immature? Reacts from his emotions.

There’s a lot of stuff out there on self esteem and helping kids to talk about what they have witnessed and how they feel, so guess I’m looking for the other stuff really. Anyone found anything useful? x

[Iwantmeback]

Hi fizzy, not due if this is what you mean but, there’s a man who does mindfulness at our local sports centre. He’s got funding from the Scottish government and is working in conjunction with practitioners from California. He goes into schools and colleges and does classes with them. He’s giving them techniques in how to deal with traumatic events so that they won’t need therapy,like we do the now,when they become adults. He’s also showing teachers how to cope with troubled students.

[fizzylem]

Thanks chick, I will look into this, would be interested to know what his philosophy is. Thinking that a big part of pre emptying could be teaching that it can and does happen to most, we seem to live unaware and in hope it wont happen, say nothing until it happens, makes it so shocking to us when it does? Because trauma is a part of life for almost everyone hey, no one really escapes it at one time or another. We need to respond to the self as well, give yourself what it is you need afterwards, workout how to feel safe in the world again – so knowing this, what to look for, know this is trauma and a normal reaction to an event or a relationship and how to deal with it would be really good x

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