It’s interesting the schools are doing a unit on mental health and talking about trauma. I’m glad for that.

I agree with what your daughter said, and wonder what authority writes the content of the course. It’s great these issues are being discussed, but wonder what kinds of things they are telling the kids.

If the school had offered this information to me back when I was a teen, it might have made a huge difference in my healthier life choices, in my relationship with my mother, too. My father had died, and my mother wallowed in her trauma, treating me as invisible. My emotions were not addressed, somewhat not allowed. I did not even recognize it as trauma, or know there was such a thing. Had the school addressed it, I might have gotten a therapist to talk to who would have shined the light on a lot of things.

Good for your daughter for being bold enough to speak her mind in class! You are raising a strong, young woman.