Posted by Tamar on December 9, 2005, at 13:51:00
In reply to CSA and our children **trigger?**, posted by antigua on December 9, 2005, at 13:17:41
Hi Antigua
I didn’t experience csa, but I was sexually assaulted several times, beginning when I was a child (hmmm, why am I not calling it csa? Anyway…)
I just don’t know what I’m going to tell my kids. My eldest is 6. I don’t want to scare her. I think she needs to know about good and bad touch, but I’m afraid if I tell her about any of *my* experiences it will be too frightening for her, because it’s her mommy.
I think perhaps by the time kids are much older they can begin to understand these things… maybe by mid to late teens…
I’ve told my eldest about my depression and she understands that. I think she understands the idea of illness better than she would understand the idea of someone hurting her mommy. But maybe it depends how old your kids are…
Tamar
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