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“Children should never be forced to do more than they are willing and able to do.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“And remember, “it’s never too late (for you) to have a happy childhood” … no matter how old you are.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Another activity to keep your child from being stuck in the past is the drawing exercise below, designed to give your child a sense of the movement of time.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Traumatized adults often re-enact an event that in some way represents, at least to their unconscious, the original trauma.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“This feeling comes from inside you and is projected out to your child.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Here we see the transition between traumatic re-enactment and healing play. The next time he held on to mommy, there was less clinging and more excited jumping.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Another signal may be shunning people and things they used to enjoy. Or your child may try to control his environment and the people around him in order to manage unbearable anxiety.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“steam-rolling over a younger, weaker child or pet.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Or they might struggle with agitation, hyperactivity, nightmares or sleeplessness. Such symptoms can try one’s patience, especially when caregivers don’t have a clue what is causing their child to behave in such unpredictable and disturbing ways.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“They may avoid any activity, person or other reminder that resembles what originally frightened them.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“help from a parent to move the play from repetition to resolution can relieve her distress.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Without words, young children sometimes show parents the parts of their experience that have overwhelmed them.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“This is in direct relationship to nature’s pendulum. We also resolve overwhelm through the natural cycles of expansion and contraction. This tells us that no matter how badly we are feeling right now, this contraction will be followed by an expansion toward freedom.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“The critical idea here is that when we are vulnerable, we benefit most from feeling a connection with a calm person who is confident of what to do and is able to convey a sense of safety and compassion. Your child will feel safe if he knows that you are strong enough to withstand (contain) his shock without becoming overwhelmed yourself.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“By tending to yourself first, paradoxically, you are in a better position to tend to your child. When you can feel your center, can notice that your breath slows down and you experience the fluidity of changing sensations, you have moved out of a momentary “freeze.” Your energy is now available to pay close attention to your child’s needs and expression. In this way you will naturally circumvent complicating your child’s reactions with your own.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Sometimes their “brave face” is an attempt to reduce the anxiety of a bewildered parent.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Just like the splint sets a broken arm properly, your undivided attention and soothing, non-judgmental language set the conditions for your child, in his or her own time, to rebound to a healthy sense of well-being.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Children are comforted and empowered by knowing that it won’t hurt forever and that you will stay with them until they begin to feel more like themselves again.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Examples of signs include a deep, relaxed, spontaneous breath, the cessation of crying or trembling, a stretch, a yawn, a smile or the making of eye contact.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Providing a minute or two of silence between questions allows deeply restorative physiological cycles to engage.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“(glazed eyes, pale skin, rapid or shallow pulse and breathing, disorientation, appears overly emotional or overly tranquil, i.e., acting like nothing has happened),”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“Your composure will greatly reduce the likelihood of frightening or confusing your child further. Remember, children are very sensitive to the emotional states of adults, particularly their parents.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“The time it takes to establish a sense of calm is time well spent.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“However, when that same child experiences the triumph of moving out of the fear and frozenness back into life, a very special kind of self-confidence blossoms—the newfound feelings of resiliency and capability.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“you have practiced the exercises, you realize that with time, intention, safety and awareness, unpleasant sensations do and will change.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

“An open-ended question invites curiosity.”
― Peter A. Levine, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience