Safe Adults, Hard Adults: Talking with kids about healing from generational trauma and understanding narcissistic family dynamics

Book Synopsis: NEW RELEASE and first publication by Annie Fredj, who has a background in education and social sciences. A book that is child centric, healing centric, and versatile enough to suit any family situation:

• Separation and divorce
• Fostering and Adoption
• Issues with alienation
• Domestic and family violence
• Low contact, high conflict family members
• Break down of co-parenting
• Parallel parenting
• Coersive control
• "Disney parent" issues
• and more

“I don't think you understand how much your book is going to help improve not just children's lives, but parents too... I am in tears reading this because I honestly believe this will help (my daughter) a trillion percent.” - Feedback from a parent fresh out of a DV relationship.

Experiences of abuse and neglect can be daunting to talk about for both children and adults. This book is designed to help you have those discussions in a constructive and meaningful way, encouraging children to recognize patterns of behavior, understand the impact of trauma, and create positive ways forward together with a Safe Adult. Without pointing fingers or using a bunch of complex psychological terminology, this book helps kids work things out for themselves. It is worded in the first person, so they know it is for them. The language used leaves it open to interpret the gender, age, and relationships involved. The book is sprinkled full of stories, activities, and positive affirmations, creating a positive and memorable learning journey.

Questions covered in the book include:

1. How can I recognize Hard Adult behavior?
2. How do Hard Adults make me feel?
3. What do Hard Adults ask me to do?
4. How does trauma work?
5. What is genuine love?

This book is printed using the open source dyslexic font to help children with learning difficulties as a result of early childhood trauma.

This book is the first in a series, keep an eye out for the next one for ages 4-7 years on the same topics.