Sentences with phrase «kids of trauma»

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My 23 kids r all hospitalized from the trauma of seeing that on our currency.

We realize kids have gotten the horrific brunt of this, in their separation from parents and the psychosocial trauma involved.

As a result of general toddler abuse, some of her toys have also developed their own unique little personalities (that were definitely not intended by the manufacturer): I don't know if your kid's Elmo is as passive - aggressive as ours, but I don't blame Maxine for all the head trauma she's caused him.

Parents (and I am one of them) create all sorts of trauma, anxiety and depression for their kids, often when they are unaware.

If you have kids with trauma histories, or special needs, the specter of holiday dread can loom particularly large.

I'm a busy working mom of two kids with trauma histories, and like most moms I have my share of moments when I feel despair and failure.

As Dr. Robert Cantu explains in his 2012 book, Concussions and Our Kids, [15] it «takes more than one type of test to compile a comprehensive baseline,» because neurocognitive tests measure the thinking and reasoning parts of the brain (medial temporal lobe and front lobe), but concussions «also may cause trauma to the calcarine cortex, which is in the back of the brain and controls vision, and the cerebellum, at the top of the neck, where balance and coordination are measured.

While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without using their helmets.

Research suggests that about a third of kids are lucky enough to escape trauma, but about a quarter suffer such high doses that it affects brain development, immune and endocrine functioning, and can create mental and physical disease systems that reduce the lifespan by an average of 20 years.

Again, while I am not a scientist or medical doctor, I don't necessarily agree, especially if the amount of what Bob Cantu calls «total brain trauma» can be significantly reduced through a combination of limits on full - contact practices and / or hit counts, rule changes, and if we do a better job of identifying concussive injury to get concussed players off the field (or ice, or field, or court, or pitch), and and hold kids out longer before they are allowed to return to play so the risk of reinjury is reduced as much as reasonably possible.

Because most concussion victims score 14 or 15 on the GCS, its primary utility is in ruling out more serious brain injuries.4 Thus,» [w] hile highly useful in the sphere of emergency response to trauma, the Glasgow Coma Scale should not be used to assess the significance of a concussion,» writes William P. Meehan, III, MD, MomsTeam concussion medicine expert emeritus and former Director of the Sports Concussion Clinic in the Division of Sports Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, in his 2011 book, Kids, Sports, and Concussion.1

There are so many things parents can do to help lessen the possibility of negative effects of divorce and if they do those things and kids don't have increased trauma due to active addiction, violence or poverty guess what?

In this slim volume, Tough pulls together decades of social science research on the impacts of poverty and trauma on kids» brains and behavior, and makes a cogent, convincing argument for why this research should lie at the center of any discussions about reform.

It's worth walking the neighborhood putting up lost bunny signs just to save our kids and ourselves the trauma of explaining the food chain.

Network (MassPINN), the Greater Boston Safe Kids Coalition, the Partnership for Passenger Safety (PPS) and the New England Coalition of Trauma Nurse Coordinators.

In Trauma Proofing your Kids: A Parent's Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience, authors Peter A. Levine and Maggie Klein describe how 85 to 90 percent of sexual abuse is perpetuated by someone the child knows and trusts — a parent, step - parent, coach, teacher, older cousin or sibling, religious leader, or babysitter.

Maybe things won't blow up on you; and you'd hate to put your kids through the trauma of a divorce if you can avoid it.

Falls are the top cause of nonfatal injuries among kids, and are most likely to be lethal when they involve head trauma.

Martin Eichelberger, a pediatric surgeon and former chief of Emergency Trauma and Burn Services at Children's National Health System, worked with Johnson & Johnson to form the National SAFE KIDS campaign, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing unintentional childhood injuries.

Because of our dedication to improving childhood safety, the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute and Division of Trauma Surgery at Floating Hospital for Children have provided a number of helpful links for parents to find more information on how to keep their kids safe.

Parents are then required to force their kids onto the creepy bunny's lap, even though they just got over the trauma of Santa.

Yet, here they are today fighting for their fellow youth, for other kids whom they have never met, that they never have to go through what the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas went through.These kids are simultaneously dealing with personal trauma, and trying to save strangers, future generations.

Concussions and Our Kids is the first prescriptive book of its kind to address the issue of head trauma in sports and provide preventive solutions to protect athletes and give guidelines for the way sports can be played safely.

In fact, there are various types of childhood trauma, and the sad truth is that some kids never recover.

Although having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the hospital with you when you go to give birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else give the baby a bottle of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing baby food until much closer to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so full of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).

«Hope House will be a kid - friendly facility and will give children access to a wide array of services, reducing the trauma they may feel.

A review of good - quality studies finds that legislation making bike helmets mandatory for kids causes significant reduction in head trauma cases.

I've seen how stressed kids can be as they deal with peer pressure, family changes and traumas, academic demands, and just trying to handle personal issues of growing up.

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Bringing back trauma — telling yourself you need a big bench press to show up those kids who used to make fun of you — is not going to make the process of getting there enjoyable.

If you eat keto from birth, and teach it to your kids and grandkids, there will be no future need for doctors except in cases of broken bones and trauma — cancer will be wiped out, and diabetes will be wiped out in as little as three generations.

She did not want to face divorce, with all the fall - out that brought, the trauma to the kids, the loss of the financial stability for the family and the depressive dust that would descend over all of them.

However derivative it may be, «Rampage» knows its audience — namely, «Transformers» fans and kids born after 9/11 for whom elaborately orchestrated scenes of falling skyscrapers carry nary a whiff of real - world trauma (it's a lot harder to stomach for those who can remember the smell that permeated Lower Manhattan after the Twin Towers collapsed).

The teens I know accepted the combat as a given, while their elders, bewildered, and looking for a little meaning, interpreted the story as a representation of how kids felt about the competitive traumas of high school; or as a metaphor for capitalism, with its terrifying job market and winner - take - all ethos; or, more simply, as a satiric exaggeration of talent - show ruthlessness.

While it hits many of the same emotional and story beats of the original — this time Dory is the one looking for her parents, leaving Marlin (Albert Brooks) to track her down to a fish rehabilitation center in California — this clever sequel delivers enough memory - loss gags, light parental trauma, and show - stopping, Fast and Furious - style set pieces to keep adults entertained and kids enthralled.

Adults who haven't forgotten the fears and traumas of middle school will no doubt get a few hearty chuckles from director Thor Freudenthal's adaptation of Jeff Kinney's popular «Novel in Cartoons,» but make no mistake, this one's primarily for the kids.

The extremely specific subgenre of magical - realist adventures about kids who cope with familial trauma by retreating into fantasy worlds full of monsters — see also: 2009's Where The Wild Things Are, 2016's A Monster Calls — gets a new entry in I Kill Giants, the debut feature from Danish filmmaker Anders Walter.

The story of the kids is good enough that the film works as a twisted variation on a coming - of - age tale, in which the fears and traumas of real life are juxtaposed with the fantastical terrors that have plagued this town since its founding.

Cultural Caregiving Services must be accessed to the vulnerable groups — the oppressed, those with disabilities, those suffering from trauma, victims of war and disaster, the abandoned, the street kids, the out - of - school youth, the delinquent, the indigenous youth who feel helpless, excluded or desperate.

«The language that we use is intergenerational trauma and I work in a context where kids have been affected by decades of colonisation that have happened,» MacDonnell explains.

But psychologists and mental health practitioners say that the impact of trauma goes beyond the kids and reaches into the lives of educators who work closely with them day to day.

Just as essential, I felt validated and valued by my supervisor, and reassured that what I was going through was a normal part of working with trauma - affected kids.

Kids growing up in poverty are more likely to experience trauma, to live without their fathers, to go home to more violent neighborhoods, and to otherwise face all manner of difficult circumstances that make it more likely that they may misbehave at school.

«Often these experiences will have echoes for kids of other kinds of childhood traumas, or other experiences that they've had with discrimination or unfairness,» says Weissbourd, «things that are hard for them to explore in a classroom but that they can explore with their parents.»

At the opposite end of the scale, we have not figured out a good enough plan to grapple with brain development, trauma, and other factors that impact kids from ages zero - to - four.

Further, all of these strategies can easily be replicated, and while they were created for a particular set of at - risk students, they can be used in any school, whether students are dealing with major trauma or the kinds of everyday challenges that all kids face.

Many kids were facing serious issues outside of the classroom, such as poverty, homelessness, and trauma, which negatively impacted their ability to focus and learn in the classroom.

«There's a lot of trauma there that kids bring to the classroom.

As the kids and families in my neighborhood begin the process of recovering from the trauma of recent events, Patty and teachers like her in Back of the Yards will be key resources to help them develop resilience.

Establishing a culture of learning is our greatest challenge because our kids have persistently failed at school and their behavior is a reflection of trauma.