What is meant when pundits say that ‘children are resilient’? As a person who was traumatized in childhood, it never ceases to amaze me how professionals, after tragedies like school shootings, continue to say that ‘children are resilient’. Does it mean that children suppress their memories and experiences and come bouncing back to ‘normal’ life? Or that somehow a magic wand eliminates the memory of trauma from the brain rendering the child with loss of memory? It would appear that no matter how much research has been conducted by neurophysiologists and psychologists with traumatized children, reporters forget that the body, brain, spirit and emotions have infinite cellular memory. It is 13 years later that the children of Columbine are still suffering from PTSD unable to sleep, reacting to loud bangs, helicopters and police sirens. Children of war torn nations suffer lifetime emotional and psychological scars. Personally, each time a national or international event occurs that eradicates childhood innocence or takes the life of a child, my entire physiology, psyche and spirit relives my own childhood trauma. The older I get, the more these events trigger intense, raw emotions. Rather than resilience, a child attempts to sublimate painful feelings over years even decades and compensates in both social and antisocial behaviors. If suppressed, something in the future triggers those memories causing disastrous behavior (like self-sabotage) both in childhood or adulthood. The memory lingers throughout life, albeit sometimes subliminally, and depending on the individual, manifests itself in a variety of behaviors in the future. Children, I contend, are not resilient but rather deeply feel trauma and create coping mechanisms around the scars that develop into adult behaviors and habits.