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How Does One Parent Well When Raised in Hell?<\/h3>\n

What it mean to be a break-the-cycle parent in practical terms? How do adverse childhood experiences impact adults who become parents?<\/h4>\n

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We hope our children never share our landscape of loss or know the second skin that is shame. We don’t want them to know how home, body and family can also be the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n

We want our children to feel at home in a safe and loving world even though it is not the one where we are from.<\/p>\n

How do we teach and guide them? How do we create something new and different? All parents want to protect children\u00a0from abuse, neglect and household dysfunction. But that doesn’t always happen.<\/p>\n

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are common.<\/p>\n

Sometimes our hopes don’t match our abilities. Sometimes our children are hurt by others or from our own addiction, illnesses, choices and circumstances. Sometimes we were less capable than we hoped, planned or wanted.<\/p>\n