By Dalai Lama Center — 2014
The strategies that children and youth use to resolve conflict change as they grow up. Stages of brain development are highly influential to both how children approach conflict and to the kinds of support adults can offer to build skills.
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Our culture has taught us that we do not have the privilege of being vulnerable like other communities.
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