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Link – The Adulting School Is Here to Help You Grow up Without Embarrassing Yourself
OK, stop rolling your eyes and think about this for a minute. Yes, this seems kind of funny, but as much as I’ve talked about how having an abusive childhood means not developing the skills we are supposed to learn as children because we were too busy just trying to survive, I wonder how effective…
Do You Fear Happiness?
How often, as children, did we decide to “fly under the radar” and not draw attention to something that brought us happiness because that just created a target? How many of us, as adults, still live with the fear that identifying something that makes us happy only invites someone to hurt us by taking it away? Even when there is no one there to take it, we live with that fear and don’t get too attached to anything.
My hope for all of us is to find a safe place to overcome that and enjoy the things that make us happy.
Sharing – Sexual violence within families: – It’s not a private matter
There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t read a story in the news, or on social media that follows a similar path.
Child abused by a family member
The child tells someone in the family
The child isn’t believed or is accused of trying to embarrass the family.
Or, the child tells someone outside of the family
The child isn’t believed, or the person doesn’t want to make trouble for the parents.Link – Online Threats: How predators lure children, others on the web
Yet another reminder, don’t just leave kids on YouTube or any other platform with no guidance, and no involvement from an adult doing it along with them. “A stranger was able to communicate with the child through YouTube messaging because the child was viewing the site alone on an account that had been set up,…
