We don’t tell Trauma Victims to Be Grateful

anymore than we tell them to be easy.

Photo by Joshua Reddekopp

I have so much to be grateful for in my life. However, I’m understanding more and more why in the regulations from Child Protective Services (CPS), we specify that it cannot be required that a child be made “to be grateful.” A youth in the CPS system will not be made to show gratitude, to be told to be grateful for what they have; cannot be told they…