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Connection Before Correction
Connection Before Correction is positive discipline that focuses on the power of love over lecturing. Children need to feel like they matter and that their voice is heard. Prioritize the relationship before the redirection.

Encouraging Open Communication with Your Children
Sometimes young children may not know how to properly express their emotions or communicate them to you. For younger children, more complex emotions such as frustration, anxiety, or sadness– may be harder for them to understand.

5 Ways to Support LGBTQ+ Youth
This June, we are commemorating the 53rd year of Pride Month by sharing five ways you can support LGBTQ+ youth. Research shows that LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in child welfare systems and continue to experience high levels of discrimination, abuse, and mental health challenges compared to cisgender youth. Whether you are a parent, sibling, teacher, or friend, we hope you take action to ensure all LGBTQ+ youth feel safe, included, and empowered.
Complex PTSD and Childhood Trauma
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder, or C-PTSD, is a type of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) caused by chronic, long-lasting, or repeated traumatic events. For example, child abuse or childhood trauma — physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect — often develops into C-PTSD. Continue reading to learn more about C-PTSD and childhood trauma.

Positive Parenting: A Proven Strategy To Reduce Child Abuse
Of the multiple parenting techniques and philosophies that have evolved — authoritative, attachment, helicopter, neglectful, and permissive — positive parenting is celebrated as a proven way to reduce child abuse. In addition, a growing body of evidence suggests that building the skills necessary for positive parenting helps protect children from violence within the family system.

Prevention of Abuse Among Children with Disabilities
Prevention of Abuse Among Children with Disabilities By Aiesha Hemeda As always, it is important to spread awareness and end the stigma of silence that surrounds child abuse and neglect. Children...

Spring and Summer Activities To Keep Kids Engaged & Parents (Mostly) Stress-Free
Spring and Summer Activities To Keep Kids Engaged & Parents (Mostly) Stress-Free Spring has arrived and summer is almost here, which means many kids will soon be out of school. Even if...

The Road to Justice: Holding Abusers Accountable
The Road to Justice: Holding Abusers Accountable Over the last several years, the media has reported on numerous child sexual abuse claims and trials. Frequently, the cases center on abuses...

How Teachers can Recognize the Signs & Support Abused and Neglected Children
How Teachers can Recognize the Signs & Support Abused and Neglected Children By Aiesha Hemeda Educators play a crucial role in supporting and defining the success of their students. It is...

Delayed Disclosure of Child Sex Abuse: Why Children Don’t Tell
Delayed Disclosure of Child Sex Abuse: Why Children Don’t Tell Recent news coverage of high-profile child sex abuse cases, like those of Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew, has generated a lot of...

Staying Informed and Protecting Your Child from Online Predators
Staying Informed and Protecting Your Child from Online Predators Written by Aiesha Hemeda Social media has implemented itself into multiple aspects of our everyday lives, it has created the...

Empowering Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Through Community
Empowering Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Through Community Humans are, by nature, social beings. We live together as family units and as part of a community. We work in teams. When disasters...
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