Not exact matches
As I listened to the podcast, I vividly recalled my own experiences with that, being the mother of a
crying child in the grocery store, in a family - friendly restaurant
or on an airplane and then being a solo
adult in a grocery store, in a restaurant
or on an airplane listening to other people's
children cry — both of which felt just as horrifying and disturbing.
I wonder if he comforts
children and
adults when he sees them
crying or distressed?
It's OK for
children to see
adults sad
or crying, but consider excusing yourself if you are experiencing intense emotions.
Think of all the times are
children get persuaded
or distracted out of their tears by well - meaning
adults before they've finished
crying.
A
cry of pain is sudden and shrill, just like when an
adult or older
child cries out when they get hurt.
If we were to see an older
child or adult crying we would never think, «I might just leave them and let them
cry it out so they can learn to settle themselves»... no way!!
Pain: A
cry of pain is sudden and shrill, just like when an
adult or older
child cries out when they get hurt.
A gifted
child may be able to participate in
adult conversations about issues such as global warming
or world hunger one minute and the next minute
cry and whine because a sibling took a favorite toy.
«As
children, if we're
crying or need soothing,
adults will often offer comfort food and because of this, comfort eating is a learnt reaction that we link to feeling better,» says DAA [Dietitians Association of Australia] dietitan Susie Burrell.
Soldiers chase a group of
adults and
children in a warehouse type dwelling, shooting them with a combination sleep - drug and tracking device (please see the Substance Use category for more details); the people fall to the floor, asleep, and we see a tiny ball bearing stuck on the skin at the neck
or shoulder; one woman rolls down a staircase (she is unharmed and awake), and a little girl
cries and runs off screen.
A gifted
child may be able to participate in
adult conversations about issues such as global warming
or world hunger one minute and the next minute
cry and whine because a sibling took a favorite toy.
In
children, we see an aversion to social contact with both peers and
adults that can manifest as
crying and /
or visibly fearful responses like shaking and sweating.
We can have understanding for a war veteran who is terrorized at night,
or avoidant of loud noises and other things that resemble their traumatic experiences; yet we somehow expect
children, babies at heart, to connect, relate, trust, love, reciprocate relationship when their early life experience was marinated in trauma; being beaten for
crying, left with tiny broken bones and head injuries, being used for
adult sexual gratification, born drug addicted because of a mother drug use, having rarely been held in safe arms, having felt the pain of hunger over days, being left to
cry until there are no more tears and no one to soothe.
These connections are strengthened every time an infant
or young
child gestures
or cries and an
adult responds appropriately with comforting words
or a hug.