Musician and actress Alanis Morissette weighed in on Huffington Post yesterday about the "attachment parent" frenzy prompted by the Time Magazine cover featuring Jamie Lynn Grumet breastfeeding her three-year-old son....
Here are short bios of four more ACEs Connection members: Colleen Williams, Leslie Lieberman, Monica Sullivan, and Cynthia Shirley. Go to their pages to read more about them, friend them and/or send a message. Colleen Williams , Mount Vernon, WA...
This headline jumped out at me this morning -- " Could texting while parenting harm baby's development? Oh give me a break....more blame-the-digital-media-for-all-of-our-social-ills junk, I thought. By the end, I was sold. Dr. Neal Halfon,...
Here are short bios of four more ACEs Connection members: Maggie Redd, Steve Seely, John Kim, and Sharon Green. All work at the Northwest Regional Primary Care Association . Go to their pages to read more about them, friend them and/or send...
Here are short bios of four more ACEs Connection members: Myra ter Meulen, Abigail Stewart-Kahn, Lauren Maher, and Judy Parsons. Go to their pages to read more about them, friend them and/or send a message. Myra ter Meulen , Amsterdam, Netherlands --...
Here are short bios of four more ACEs Connection members: Robbyn Bowman, Polly Lankford Smith, Quen Zorrah, and Anne Dean. Go to their pages to read more about them, friend them and/or send a message. Robbyn Bowman , Milltown, WI -- Robbyn is...
Here are short bios of four more ACEs Connection members: Victor Carrion, Shannon Thyne, Amy Phalen, and Todd Renschler. Go to their pages to read more about them, friend them and/or send a message. Victor Carrion , San Francisco, CA -- Victor, an...
Here are short bios of four more ACEs Connection members: Emily Kronenberger, Kimberly Randell, Julia Hellman, and Alicia Lieberman. Go to their pages to read more about them, friend them and/or send a message. Emily Kronenberger , Allentown, NJ --...
A resource for health professionals to share with their trauma patients. We help people cope with, and heal from, their negative experiences by directing them to specialized trauma treatment centers, therapists, support groups and...
PLoS blog post by Maggie Brown referencing ACE study. "Children can be traumatized not only by the same things that can traumatize adults – for example, direct physical/sexual abuse, natural disasters, or events related to war – but also...
Walla Walla Police Sgt. Kevin Braman __________________ IF YOU'RE AMONG THE MORE THAN 350,000 people (!!) who read the story about how Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, took a different approach to school discipline, with a resulting 85%...
One of the more interesting background notes to the CDC's Adverse Childhood Experience Study was that the Institutional Review Board (IRB) responsible for approving this particular research project involving human subjects nearly turned...
Here are another four responses from new members to a question about their interest in ACEs: Pamela Jacobson, Crystal Elliott, Tony Raden, and Patty Frew. Some of the responses are shortened, so go to their pages to read more about them, friend them...
I've studied human development and family-system functioning professionally for 33 years. I conclude that a largely-unhrecognized source of personal and social "problems" is an inherited [wounds + unawareness] cycle : 1) young kids are parented ineffectively, and develop up to six specific psychological " wounds " to survive. 2) without parental recovery and family-system imporovement, kids leave home and choose similarly-wounded, unaware mates - repeatedly. Many of them...
Washington State determined that 13 out of every 30 students in a classroom will have toxic stress from 3 or more traumatic experiences. Those children are likely to be more "unruly", more "unmotivated" or more absent than the others. Source:...