Shouldn't we be teaching parenting at the hospital as a mandatory policy? Prevention of ACEs could save the children from experiencing trauma... which is a win-win for all of us.
I think it's more complicated than that. Some parents don't have (a) Empathy and some don't have (b) Capacity, to parent adequately. Some also have impaired perspective-taking and some literally have Anosognosia (a brain-based lack of Insight). Parenting cannot always be 'taught' to a target population (e.g. new parents). Also, some were not parented adequately themselves.
"An unmet Childhood Need remains as an unmet Adulthood Need..."
My goal is to have mandatory viewing of videos or a personal presentation that inspires people to care more on a monthly basis for anyone showing up at a hospital for pre or post natal care. With all the national attention on aces we know that it's getting worse every year and if we don't start working on prevention that will be the status quo ...which it appears to be in the six years I've been involved in the Ace awareness foundation here in Nashville.
The thing we've discovered that was a big surprise was that aces crosses all demographics. In every speech that doctor Felitti gives he mentions that the most important thing we could do is have better parenting efforts... Who is going to take up that banner and carry it forward to prevent so much childhood trauma? I would be glad to give my book away for free at the hospital level!!!
I would be interested in knowing what you are thinking? The program I work with foes home visitation, but primarily with at-risk families. There is certainly a population we are missing that could be caught at prenatal classes or doctor's appointments. There is a program in the Boston area that has a home visitation program ran out if the pediatrican's office. I still think it would be best to catch them prenatally to discuss epigenetics and toxic stress during pregnancy.
I have two books dealing in particular with preventing ACEs on Amazon these days. I would love to do the teaching since that's what I'm typically speaking about these days. I'm just tired of it always being about post trauma events. I could even make videos that could be shown in a monthly auditorium setting for anyone showing up for pre or post natal appointments.
We make people get a license to operate a car but there is absolutely no parenting advice anywhere within the system today. And since awareness of aces seems to be stronger everyday it's a simple confirmation that things are getting worse not better and that prevention needs to be at the forefront of all of our efforts.
How do we get traction on this David? If we spend one-tenth the amount of time, thought and energy with prevention that we spend on aces...we would be preventing the trauma that all the other efforts deal with.
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