by Laurie | Oct 20, 2017 | Abused Children, Blog, Child's Experiences, Education, Trauma Recovery
If you’re a woman you’ve, probably had your Harvey Weinstein moment, and you probably didn’t report your abuser. I get it. After my attempt to garner help from a perp-supporting yard teacher failed miserably, I gave up believing at seven years old...
by Laurie | Oct 2, 2017 | Abused Children, Blog, Child's Experiences, Education, Public School, Trauma Recovery
In my second blog I told the true story about a gang of boys dragging me to the “pussy-bushes” in 3rd grade Then came 5th grade when a lone troubled boy stalked me in the hallways at recess, using the packed passageways as cover as he repeatedly...
by Laurie | Aug 30, 2017 | Abused Children, Child's Experiences, Trauma Recovery
This post is a link-fest that provides critical research on why children act out, are checked out, or even drop out of school. Keep in mind, that information about ACEs is not limited to children’s behavior and physiology, but also why parents, teachers, and...
by Laurie | Aug 25, 2017 | Abused Children, Public School, Race Experience
(My Father is on the far left of the back row) In some families everyone is a cop, or a doctor, or in the military. Well, teacher families are a thing too. My children’s grandmother, grandfather, and mother all joined the education corps, so to speak. I can’t make...
by Laurie | Aug 22, 2017 | Abused Children, Public School, Race Experience
Lovely bulletin boards, PTA fundraisers, and singing kids at assemblies aside; let us not be fooled…shit-showiness is always present to one degree or another. I support public education. YES. I. DO. But the problems that schools have are the same problems that...
