Childhood trauma is one of the harder realities of parenting to sit with, partly because it can be difficult to recognize and even harder to know how to address. Children do not process distressing experiences the way adults do their brains are still developing, their emotional vocabulary is limited, and their understanding of what happened…
For a lot of parents, there comes a moment at bedtime, after a scraped knee, or on a slow Sunday afternoon when the child makes their preference crystal clear. Not you. The other one. And no matter how well you understand the logic behind it, it still lands differently than you expect.
It is one…

