Chances are we are not healthy enough to avoid somehow depriving the child within of its emotional needs, and to deprive the child within of any of its emotional needs is to traumatize our child.

Emotional desolation a person experienced in childhood (and in which they remain). Chances are we are not healthy enough to avoid somehow depriving the child within of its emotional needs, and to deprive the child within of any of its emotional needs is to traumatize our child. Yes, there are endless self-help and psychology books and theories out there telling you how resilient children are and that children need to have some of their needs deprived in order to become independent and to avoid becoming spoiled, but…they’re wrong. Yes, some people become strong and independent in very unique ways as the result of overcoming their adversity , but how much stronger would they have become had they never been traumatized in the first place? There is no excuse for traumatizing our child.