I just read a piece in Medium written by an adult whose childhood dentist hit her in the face. Sadly, lots of children are traumatized by the adults with whom they engage — not just parents. Doctors, dentists, religious figures, coaches and even neighbors or contractors are implicated. What happens is that children are silenced by the trauma and can’t speak up and out. The freeze response to trauma freezes our voice. We then have children who hold their trauma within. That is why I wrote a forthcoming book published by Columbia Teachers College Press (June 2020) titled Educating for Trauma: Strategies for Student Success. Kids bring their trauma to school in suitcases of different sizes. We need to help them now. Waiting does not make trauma disappear. No indeed. It just gets sublimated and cabined away. Its symptomology remains. The book will, I hope, help. …see more