To Educators and Child Care Workers:
My primary reason for creating this website is to hopefully reach educators, child-service workers, and adults everywhere to say “Wake up” and don’t assume someone else will deal with the problem of child abuse and neglect. I am creating this website now for two main reasons. One reason, is that I am rapidly losing the use of my hands from a neuromuscular disease which has already taken away my ability to walk. The second and most important reason is because I know from my own experience, that by the age of 8 I was already extremely mentally ill. By that age, I was sleeping with a knife under my pillow, I was cutting myself, and I believed I was being watched all the time. Reaching children before they end up like me is not only crucial; but life altering.
If we hope to make a dent in the rising violence among youth, we must start talking about it with children while they are still young enough to be helped. We need to foster an environment of openness where children feel safe to share their feelings and experiences with a trusted adult. I believe strongly that the problems we are seeing today are being set in motion at a very young age, often exacerbated by societal pressures as well as inadequate and unfunded support systems. If we do not start talking to children in Kindergarten or even younger, this trend in youth violence will only get worse. This will inevitably lead to a cycle of trauma and aggression that affects not just individuals but generations. I put together what I believe to be What Children Need to Know, a guide that emphasizes the importance of age-appropriate conversations and active listening. I believe we need to tell these truths to children as early as possible, equipping them with the knowledge and trust that they are not alone. This will hopefully insure that they can grow into well-adjusted and compassionate individuals who are aware of their rights and empowered to seek help.,
Please visit the links below for additional information. For those interested in knowing my personal reason for this site, please visit this link: Why this Website
Our Mission: Protect Children. Empower Survivors. Wake Adults
Children need to know they are not alone. They don’t have to keep secrets. Every adult must act when they see warning signs — because ignoring abuse today creates trauma tomorrow. Don’t wait until they become your problem through violence or crime.
Together…..WE CAN break the cycle.
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This is excellent information. I admire your courage and strength. You go girl.
Thank you very much for your love and most of all your trust. You are brilliant. Which is not new to me.
I would like to talk to you privately w a few questions I have before I put them in a public forum.
Also, please keep in mind I will help you with anything you need. Love you.
Excellent and God bless for speaking up n out.
I went against my instincts and posted my story at least some of it. Maybe it will give some context as to why I feel so strongly that we need to start talking to children about these things at a very young age.
I am really struggling with documenting my journey because it keeps triggering me. I have treatments again this week and I am so friggin tired of the treatments. They haven’t helped me all they do is make me sick. Just getting dressed each day is getting progressively harder and I am afraid of what will happen to me after my mother passes. She manages my meds and I know if I get stuck somewhere, which I have done a few times in the bathtub, she can help me get on my feet and stand up. Once she is gone, I don’t know where I will live or who will help me. The only time of my life I ever felt anything like happiness was when I was raising my boys. Once they grew up and went out on their own, I lost it. I lost my home and job around the same time and had to move into my mother’s house. One big recipe for disaster. I often with I could drink all this away. I am so tired of struggling. Struggling to survive my whole life, now struggling to get dressed each day, struggling to walk and struggling to function. Why did God let me live only to let me break down as an adult by getting a disease that affects less than 1% of the population so not much research is going into it. You just gradually lose the use of your legs, arms and then you body functions. It is slow and painful. Why would God bring me back from the dead so so many times just to end up like this???? I don’t understand and it is really pissing me off.