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Guest post by Darryl Nyznyk, author of Mary’s Son: A Tale of Christmas.
My wife and I raised four daughters through school day
traumas of isolation, rejection, ostracism and dissociation, and bullying.
While none of our daughters were on the receiving end of all of these hateful practices, each experienced one or more
personally, and each saw them foisted upon others. It was our duty, as parents,
to guide them through these experiences by teaching them how to deal with the
pain, and by helping rebuild their shattered psyches after each experience.
We found it was just as important to instill in them empathy
and compassion for others suffering through the same trauma. We wanted to teach
them to look less at the pain they were experiencing and more to the pain of
others who they could help.
