Akacia:
Hello. Nice to meet you. I'm the Community Manager for this community and I really hope you'll share your blog posts HERE. I think your perspective is key and I appreciate how much you shared. There are over 300 hundred of us here and many of us are parents or work with parents (have ACEs, kids or people we love or work with have ACEs) and we're all learning about trauma informed EVERYTHING and how we can heal and help support and understand our kids and be there for our kids.
I love your name and believe trauma-informed and attachment focused parenting is where it's at. I sometimes refer to the ACE test as a ten-point parenting plan of things not to do in order to have healthier and happier kids. It's something I wish I know, read and understood when in high school (as opposed to as an adult who has a child and who lived through ACEs and also failed to protect my own child from all the ACEs).
Please contribute and add your voice and share links to your posts. Please add your voice and perspective here and on the wider site and in relevant communities. Please let me know if you have questions or ideas or want to post and be more involved here. I'm so glad you posted.
You and your perspective and view are TOTALLY needed. I am a huge fan of blogging and truth telling and encouraging and understanding ourselves and one another which helps our kids, families, us and the whole dang world.
Also, THANK you for not only sharing the ACE score and challenges but your triumphs and what supported you as a kid in the midst of ACEs. I don't think we (and by that I mean me) thinks and writes enough about what goes well and what did support me even with high ACEs as a kid. For me it was school (which I loved) and the unconditional love of pets, paper and the open page. Thanks for the reminder to honor and remember that goodness!
So glad for your comment and that you are here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you seen Rise Magazine? They have great articles by, for and about parents who have been involved with CPS. Please keep sharing!
cissy