The New Adult Adverse Experiences (AAE) & ACE Questions from Dr. Felitti & Dr. Alman

The Centers for Disease Control, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the National Institute of Mental Health should be working furiously on this new kind of parenting education.  Perhaps parenting education campaigns akin to the smoking and seatbelts campaigns of the past?  Perhaps multi-media messaging that teaches parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as supporting the healthy development of children. 

Most, if not all, of the ten original aces are associated with unsupportive and harmful parenting.  This suggests that the most important lesson from the ACE Study and the one that is not being addressed is that many adverse childhood experiences can be prevented with parenting education.  Not conventional parenting education, but a new kind that reaches everyone, everywhere, all the time.  

Visit www.advancingparenting.org.  Use a computer.  Our website is not optimized for phones.  Advancing Parenting is a Camarillo, CA nonprofit organization and in our own unique way we are taking this approach to the primary prevention of adverse childhood experiences. 🙂