With the increase of divorces happening in the United States their
needs to be a way for the children of the newly divorced parents to cope with
such a traumatic experience. This is where Heart
Start Trauma Smart comes into
play. A program that was created to help children deal with stress, the program
has had a fifty percent success rate. The author for this article is David
Bornstein an author for the New
York Times. He has written several books on child development and has
written numerous articles for the New
York Times on social
problems. The author's main purpose for this article is to explain a new way of
helping children cope with the problems that are arising in 21st century
America.
The author begins with a young child named
Luke. Luke is a five year old without either his mother or his father. Both his
parents took drugs and could not take care of their child. Luke now lives with
his grandparents but frequently had outbursts and temper tantrums. That was of
course until the Heart Start Trauma Smart came in and helped him control and
begin to understand his feelings. Luke has been receiving individual therapy
from the people in the program has learned to control his emotions through
different activities.
I believe that the author was able to
achieve his purpose of explaining this new program. He wanted a lot of people
to learn about this new program and therefore published it in the New York Times hoping that people would see it and
would read the article. The article is also not at all hard to comprehend.
Anyone could read this article and understand what the overall message was, and
they might even act on this newfound knowledge. I found this article to be
very interesting and informative.
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