Blowout Documentary

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Blowout are sometimes beneficial experience
People try push limits
Care based on developmental age, not chronological age
Trust can take years
Safe enough, trust enough
Be predictable
The documentaries goal was to offer parenting tools to guardians of children with attachment disorders. This documentary that lasted about an hour, and consisted of a lot of information to help people who are foster parents, adoptive parents, and people who are talking care of relatives while their family cannot take care of their own kids. The big underlining theme is being consistent and predictable. Humans, especially children, feel much more comfortable when they know what is going to happen, or when they know the consequence (or reward) for their actions.
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Anyone could watch this video, as they used pretty common terms, every once in a while, the would use an unfamiliar acronym or statistic terms, but nothing the general populace would not understand. Though the author definitely assumed the audience had an understanding of child protective services, and have a basic understanding of disenfranchised children. Nothing would really be lost if the teachings of this documentary were followed, it has a view of treating children well and being patient with them. It might go against the proverb, “spare the rod, spoil the child”, but as a society we should be belong beating kindness into a child. There are still organizations that use “attachment therapy” formally known as “holding therapy” to treat children with similar problems, that include pinning down a child until they love their foster family, and these organizations would say this video would not be helping these children fast enough. “Holding Therapy” was not brought up once in this video, only strong arguments for the slow patient method, and many cases for the slow patient method. While the video did not cover all

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