Don’t forget, tomorrow is Stamp-out Hunger day here in the US. If you leave out non-perishable food items, the local letter carrier in more than 10,000 cities and towns will collect them for your local food banks. Read the link for more info.
I found this post about the statistics of on-line predators compared to the level of panic about on-line predators quite interesting. I’ve been aware for a number of years that focused media attention on any issue can greatly impact how people act, regardless of what the actual risk might be. How many people won’t travel…
Pin One of my pet peeves, among many, are articles written as though fixing everything about life is as simple as getting outside more, or eating this one thing, or stating that a study shows something that really, maybe it doesn’t. For example, the studies about screen time, or social media use, which seem to be…
Pin I have been on record saying that if you truly believe in a cause, and the importance of it, you need to be the first to call out untruths.
I’ve said it about false rape allegations, false child abuse allegations, fake hate crimes, etc.
If you believe rape, abuse, and hate crimes are big issues that our society needs to be concerned with, and that the victims need to believed, you need to be the first to call it out when someone undermines the issue by spreading false stories.
So, while it may cost me some followers, let me just say this. If you believe QAnon conspiracy theories about elite pedophile gangs and sex trafficking rings with zero proof aside from some seeming coincidences with a bunch of half-true facts, and go spreading them around, you are undermining the very serious issue we have in society with actual, real pedophiles, elite and otherwise, and real, true to life, sex trafficking.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea, ever since I first heard about Darryl Kile’s death. Darryl apparently died of heart disease. He was 5 months younger than I am. You just don’t think about people 33-34-35 years old dying suddenly because of heart failure, but it does happen. For me, being right there…
“Giants are not as strong and powerful as they seem” – Such an important lesson for anyone. https://youtu.be/ziGD7vQOwl8&w=500
Pin Listen to both episodes. You’ll be challenged to think about youth mental health in a much broader sense. Hopefully, you will also see that these are not easy questions to answer and that existing in the world and planning for a future right now is hard. It’s no wonder that young people are struggling. It’s time we start taking serious steps toward making it less challenging for everyone and quit looking for a silver bullet that’ll fix it.
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i was sexually and emotionally and physically abused by my dad. it started when i was 5 or 6 and i am turning 17 this july, right now i am tring to put my father in prison, but it is not work. i just want all the pain to go away and all the tears to stop falling. my biggest and only fear is that he wont get put in prison and he will do this to some other child and i wont be able to help that child and then they will have to go through all the bullshit and wont ever have a good normal life. how can i help and how can i make it all go away forever?????
i heard this site was very good. and i hope it can help me
im sexual abused by my dad every day im 16 he
fist put it all the way in when i was 5 i want to die..