The deadline for this months Carnival Against Child Abuse is rapidly approaching. I’ve gotten a handful of submissions so far, and a few that Marj was kind enough to pass on that didn’t quite make last month’s deadline, but we can always use more, so get your submissions in, and pass along the word on your own blogs! Thanks!
Pin It’s funny, yesterday I noticed that a post I wrote about why we should continue to talk about child abuse, because survivors need to know that they are not alone, and that there are plenty of other abuse victims who have overcome their abuse to be happy, healthy adults was exactly one year old. So…
Jean, a “psychologist-in-training” posted a message in the forums about finding survivors of physical child abuse by a parent and/or caregiver as part of her dissertation. If you’re interested you can read more about it in her post, and contact her.
I got a note today that I thought my be of interest to all of you, so I’m sharing the relevant part of the email: I’m writing to introduce myself and the Letters to My Abusers Project. If you think you may be interested in publishing a letter to your abuser, you can read the…
Pin As many of you probably know since I’ve mentioned being away from the online community for a bit, last week, my wife’s dad passed away, just 5 weeks after her mom had. The grieving process for us is still very much ongoing and will be for quite some time.. However, one thing that has seemed…
Pin Think about it. Right now, this very second, you are reading this post because either you found the headline intriguing and clicked, or someone shared it with you and said you should read it, and you clicked. In both cases, you were persuaded by another person to do something. If you saw it on Facebook or other social media platform, there’s a Facebook algorithm watching you and trying to give you more stuff you like, to persuade you to keep coming back to Facebook, and you’re reading it on a device that you were persuaded to purchase by some other factor in your life.Â
Not to mention the fact that parents, teachers, or someone, somewhere, persuaded you to learn to read. You were persuaded, even manipulated, to go to school, study, become the sort of person who could get a well-enough paying job to own a piece of technology and pay for an internet connection, and all of that wound up with you, right here, right now.Â
You were “groomed” to do what you are doing right now. And yet, so many want to look at children, and make them responsible for knowing which persuasion is good for them and which isn’t.Â
Don’t know if anyone’s noticed that I added a couple of survivor blogs to the blogroll, End of Abuse and The last one. As always, if you know of any blogs by abuse depression or disability survivors, please pass them on!
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I put an announcement post up on my blog. And I’ll get my own post submission in, too. Sorry, but I already know it’s going to be just under the wire…but I’ll get ‘er in! 😉
desperately trying to contact the person that helps us get these submission forms in hopefully we will get there in time