Children of Alcoholics - New Book for Tweens Can Help

Children of alcoholics experience trauma that is little understood by those who have not grown up in a home with a parent who has the untreated disease of alcoholism. If you are unfamiliar with this concept or would like more information, this link to Coping With an Alcoholic Parent and this to the National Association for Children of Alcoholics can help. This trauma changes the brain of a child and makes him or her more susceptible to substance abuse, which in turn, makes them more susceptible to the five key risk factors for developing alcoholism, themselves. For these reasons, it is imperative we help children understand what is really going on – that it is not them – that they are not the cause of their parents drinking and drinking behaviors. So I was thrilled to learn about Jody Lamb and her new book for tweens, Easter Ann Peters’ Operation Cool.

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