I wish this kind of stuff had been going on when I was a kid

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Yes, the public is becoming more and more aware of how harmful physical,

emotional, and sexual abuse is to kids, which is wonderful. I'm glad there are

more and more resources now available to help kids who are being bullied.

It took a huge, ugly public scandal for the widespread sexual abuse of children

by Catholic priests to be exposed and even partially dealt with. And now

there's that scandal being unearthed about the University sports coach who was

in the habit of sexually molesting young boys, that was apparently covered up by

other University students and co-workers.

The public needs to become even more aware of how pathetically, abjectly

vulnerable little children are to predation by seemingly nice adults.

But its going to take a major sea-change of our culture/our traditions to take

that awareness to the next level: that abuse very often starts at home.

Parental emotional abuse, physical abuse and sexual abuse is the beginning of

the damage to kids, making them vulnerable to continued abuse by other people.

I think the only way to achieve this level of awareness is by public school

educational classes about how to recognize what mentally healthy, positive

behaviors look like, sound like and feel like, in comparison to what mentally

disordered, negative, toxic behaviors look like, sound like and feel like, so

kids can have a chance to rescue themselves.

With " emotional hygiene " education, a child can say to themselves about their

own experiences at home, " Hey... being screamed at and punched and thrown

against the wall by my parents is NOT normal and its NOT OK! I'm being abused! "

or " Hey, being locked inside the house alone by my parents for three days to

take care of myself and my baby brother... that's NOT OK and its NOT normal:

we're being abused! " or " When daddy tells me that its OK for us to touch each

other's private parts and we have to keep it a secret, that's really NOT OK and

its NOT normal, I'm being abused! "

I think this is the level of education that kids need now, myself. There aren't

enough good parents out there anymore, and kids need a standard to judge by,

whether they're being abused or not.

-Annie

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AMEN!!

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