Statistics tell us 1. One in four children will experience sexual abuse by the age of eighteen. 2. 90% of abuse is by someone they know and trust. 3. 82% do not tell anyone. How do we help our children to stay safe.
I saw this picture first on Aoibheanns Pink Tie facebook page . A fabulous charity helping families of children with cancer. I originally saw it a few weeks ago, but the question it asks has stayed with me. Who would I like to sit with? Would I chose a famous figure from the past? Someone … More If you could, who would you choose to spend five minutes with?
From the moment my first born was placed in my arms I became a different person. I don’t mean a mother, or a more caring individual, nor do I mean a stay at home carer. No, I became a lioness. In the early days if I heard someone criticize comment, on how early my child … More Beware. This mama can still bite!
Letter number 14 in “a series of letters” is written by the blogger AshleyNicole A Silent Love Letter. As my eyes gently open this morning and expose my mind to this world of troubles, I find that it is your enigmatic soul they drift to. I subconsciously exhale with the liberation my love for you … More Letter number 14
My first of two letters to be posted today is by the writer of the blog Eurolanguages. Dear inner child, Don’t worry so much about offending others when you have to stand up for your rights; just tell them how you feel, no need for plights! Whatever happened to you in your early years that … More Series of letters. Letter 13.
I am involved, with others, as coach with a swim team. Today we brought a team to a competition and they swam their hearts out. Some were at their very first competition. Ranging in age from eight to fourteen they were a mixed bag of emotions, and personalities. There was the very serious, hanging on … More Winning isn’t everything.
I have four children, but as I look at photos one seems to be missing! There is the first, my eldest daughter. She is the one with a photo album for every month of her first year of life. There are photos of her moments after birth, going home, crying, smiling, getting a bath, sitting … More Have you photographs of your third child?
Grief is a strange emotion. For a time it is all consuming. Eating into my every moment. And then it begins to recede. Burrowing deep inside me, taking up residence next to my heart. It becomes a lurker, on occasions out of nowhere it rises to the surface. At other times Grief hits me with a … More Four minus one.
I know why a blogger blogs, so I wonder why does a troll troll? Is a troll a person who goes online with nothing but trolling in mind? Or are they people who get sucked in when they read other troll comments? For them is it just a smart comment competition, one trying to be … More Why does a troll toll?
I lived in silence for many years and no one heard me roar. This is an account of one such a day. As I walk the corridor of the hospital ward I am nursing on, I think I glimpse him in the distance. He turns the corner and is gone. A sharp pain of fright … More Silence is the greatest enabler of abuse.
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