Even when caretakers work hard to keep children safe dangerous events happen and these can be unexpected and can affect the child without our conscious awareness, any event that is painful to a child, can lead to long term emotional and physical effects is a child hood trauma and indeed these experiences like bullying, physical, sexual and emotional abuse, war, violence at home, substance abuse can be detrimental to a child's development, leading to sleep disturbances, Anger/anger outbursts, affects the child's relationships even to adulthood. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martha-apendi/message