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ACES prevention/Advancing Parenting

 

One of Advancing Parenting's goals is to get the parenting tips on semi trailers and static and digital billboards across the U.S. on a permanent rotating basis.

Open the attachments to see a few rough mock-ups of billboard and semi trailer tips and visit advancingparenting.org to see the complete list of tips.

Bear in mind that Advancing Parenting's activities are not about intervention, healing, rehabilitation, treatment, and recovery.  Our focus is the prevention of adverse childhood experiences 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years in the future.

 

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David: I admire your energy and desire to support parenting as a way of preventing ACEs. I know we all respond to different things and all approaches are needed.  Do quotes and statements inspire you? For me, these types of slogans shut me down and make me feel judged or scolded and if I'm already in post-traumatic stress, that's not helpful. 

I think advice can make people feel talked at rather than listened to/heard. For me, something reminding me to breathe or pause or that validates that parenting can be hard brings healing and relief. 

From a Parenting with ACEs chat conversation:

Dr. Gold: In my many years of clinical experience I have observed that dramatic shifts occur in families when we experience strong feelings during a visit. The predominantly right brain centers that control emotions change when they are actually firing. The powerful feelings associated with having a struggling child may make the higher left-brain thinking centers inaccessible. Moving through emotions in a safe caregiving environment helps us to feel calm and think clearly, making us more available for meaningful change.

“ACEs are intimately intertwined with stories of loss. When we can listen for loss and allow parents a safe space to grieve, we help them to move through mourning to healing.”

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ACN: What do you think works better for parents (than giving advice)?

Dr. Gold: â€œWe need to help alleviate that stress rather than instruct parents in “what to do.” That stress takes many forms: the stress of a fussy baby, the everyday challenges of managing a family and work in today’s fast-paced culture, often without the support of extended family, are frequent causes. Stress may come from more complex relational issues between parents, between siblings, between generations. It is not that they don’t know how to parent, but that their natural abilities have been inhibited by stress, by negative models in the past, or both.

Cissy/Community Manager, Parenting with ACEs

Excellent work here! If I had unlimited financial resources, I'd buy one million copies of the little book Raising A Happy Spirit: The Inner Wisdom of Parenting by Julianna Lyddon, M.A. (www.amazon.com/Raising-Happy-S...enting/dp/0615404715) and distribute them like cups of tea to anyone who cares for a child. This small, powerful jewel of a book teaches parents/caregivers that concepts like "truth" and "humility" can be presented to children with ease and grace, joy and compassion. The book was published in 2010 and cites the ACEs study because Ms. Lyddon was an "early adopter."

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