PetrChelcicky wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:32 am "Intergenerational trauma" is one of those cases where clearly defined scientific (social psychological) concepts (like "racism") are more or less deliberately misused.
"Trauma", meaning something like thrust, stroke, collision etc., is at first the sudden cause of a physical damage and can be transferred to a similarly suddenly caused psychical damage.
Now, for instance, my mother had a real trauma. Having lived in Berlin during the air-raids she was completely beside herself when she heard alarm sirens (two times each year, b/o testing reasons).
As a child I was impressed enough to become anxious when there was a plane above me.
But that was not a trauma, but "induced fear".
And my children would only have that fear now if I had insisted on telling them stories about air-raids and how their grandmother was affected by them.
But of course I haven't done that. And even if, my children would not be "traumatized", because their fear would not be the unintentional product of a sudden experience, but the intentional product by my telling them stories.
Interesting description/example.
Isn’t this just fact for all parents everywhere for all time?
My grdaughter barely knows about Pearl Harbor, and MANY historical events; i often wonder, what is enough? what is too much?
i’m 100% convinced my parents struggled with the same. what is worthwhile? what is dishonest?
no one can rightly relive the past. it’s interesting to study, to learn, to imagine. to celebrate, and to grieve.
in the end, i emphasize scriptures.
because this provides the lens i hope she chooses to view the world through. all of it. whatever she faces, to view it through scriptures, and the spirit intended therein. i recommend it for all parents. because all souls matter.