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Parents Can Protect Children By Noticing The Signs Of Emotional Strain

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Children rarely say “I’m overwhelmed.” They show it. In this second part of our three-part series on children caught in the middle of parental conflict, we unpack the clear, practical signs that a child is carrying more than they can manage—and how parents can protect rather than pathologize. As a child and adolescent psychotherapist, Kim Lee walks through the patterns that surface at home, in school, and inside the nervous system when conflict becomes a background hum in a child’s life.

We start by reframing behavior as communication. Anxiety, clinginess, tearfulness without…

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