Raising Voices Violence Against Children

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What are you doing to create a home or school where children feel emotionally and mentally safe? #PreventingEmotionalVAC ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

What are you doing to create a home or school where children feel emotionally and mentally safe? Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=00qkXa…

Emotional violence lowers children’s self-esteem and increases their self-doubt, and worry. When not helped, children miss out on experiencing beautiful, safe, and healthy childhoods. What are you doing to create a home/school where children feel emotionally and mentally safe?

When children experience emotional violence, they are taught to believe that name-calling, criticism, or denial of parental love and affection is normal, and they are likely to behave in the same way toward others. #PreventingEmotionalVAC

What are you doing to create a home or school where children feel emotionally and mentally safe? #PreventingEmotionalVAC

Keeping an eye on and responding to unusual behaviors in children is key to understanding their emotional state. It is important to pay attention to behaviors such as eating disorders, declining performance at school, avoidance, anxiety, etc.

Words stick. They last a lifetime. They shape who we are and who we become. Verbal abuse has the potential to damage a child for a lifetime. Speaking to over 1000 children, our new research reveals that 2 in 5 children experience verbal abuse by adults.

What are you doing to create a home or school where children feel emotionally and mentally safe? #PreventingEmotionalVAC

What are you doing to create a home or school where children feel emotionally and mentally safe? #PreventingEmotionalVAC

Words and acts of rejection, criticism, threats, yelling, and insults, can leave deep long-lasting scars! Emotional violence against children cannot be overlooked, whether it happens at school or at home. youtube.com/watch?v=wZGhI8…

A 2012 study by Bio Medical Central public health on emotional abuse towards children, indicates that although most hidden, under reported, and less studied, emotional abuse may be the most prevalent form of violence that children experience. #PreventingEmotionalVAC

Awareness of positive discipline approaches is one good way of improving teacher-student relationships and ensuring children learn in a safe environment, free from intimidation and violence. This results in a better school experience for both teachers and students.

"It is an adult responsibility ... to create safe spaces for children." This video on the prevalence of corporal punishment in Asia, from @forgoodschools talks about the importance of making sure children grow up in violence-free communities: youtu.be/vN6CYnzh4Bs