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Small children experience traumatic events very differently from adults. It may even be that we view their experience of it as exaggerated. What seems trivial to us may remain with them for life.
Most dedicated parents go out of their way to protect their children from danger. Yet, trauma can take very different forms. It can be a single event like a car-accident or witnessing a violent crime. Trauma can be chronic when a child is bullied or abused over an extended period of time. Being exposed to frightening images on Television or in the school yard can leave a child with psychological trauma. Physical trauma, for example a dog-bite can leave a child shaken-up for life. Even a “insignificant” event like being accidentally locked into the restrooms at school can trigger feelings of helplessness and fear every time a child enters public restrooms in future.
Research found that up to 43% of children experience at least one traumatic event in their life. Many parents will go out of their way when it comes to trauma-proofing their children’s lives. In some cases families will uproot their lives to emigrate to another country when their country of birth becomes unsafe and crime-ridden. Still it remains impossible for any parent to guarantee their child will be exempt from trauma. Nature has the power to throw a tantrum and upset our lives with a tornado, hurricane, flood or fire. Thus a child sense that the world is an unsafe place, a place to fear.
How a child experiences trauma will depend on their age, level of development and personality type. Children from the same house-hold may have very different ways of communicating their internal turmoil and trauma.