Child Abuse Prevention Month
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH
Everyone can do small things every day that help children to have healthy, safe lives. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. The calendar below suggests an activity you can do each day of the month to show a child how much you care. Every activity is not necessarily developmentally appropriate for every child. So, be creative!
Saturday 1 Compliment a child’s accomplishment.
Sunday 2 Read a book with a child. Those are MY Private Parts
Monday 3 Fly a kite together.
Tuesday 4 Involve a child in preparing a special meal.
Wednesday 5 Catch your child doing something good.
Thursday 6 Remind your child that your love is not dependent on schoolwork.
Friday 7 Leave a love note in your child’s lunch bag.
Saturday 8 Ask your child’s opinion on an issue that affects the family.
Sunday 9 Go to a playground or a park together.
Monday 10 Coordinate a scavenger hunt around your house.
Tuesday 11 Tell a child about something funny that happened to you when you were a child.
Wednesday 12 Take flowers home to your spouse with a note on why you value your marriage.
Thursday 13 Bake and decorate a cake or make cookies together.
Friday 14 Work on an art project together.
Saturday 15 Talk with a child about what to do in an emergency.
Sunday 16 Look for figures in the clouds.
Monday 17 Give a new responsibility—and a new privilege—to your child.
Tuesday 18 Practice crossing the street safely.
Wednesday 19 Visit neighbors together, particularly if they have children.
Thursday 20 Donate old clothes, toys, or household items to charity together.
Friday 21 Watch a video together.
Saturday 22 Help a child write a letter to his or her grandmother, favorite TV star, or the President.
Sunday 23 Have a picnic in the yard or the park.
Monday 24 Choose something to count (trucks, dogs). Take a walk and keep track of how many you see.
Tuesday 25 Plan an outing to a free outdoor concert or exhibit.
Wednesday 26 Give your child a hug.
Thursday 27 Plant a flower or some herbs together.
Friday 28 Go to a ball game together.
Saturday 29 Do a puzzle together.
Sunday 30 Tell your child that you love him or her.
https://www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/supporting/prevention_month.cfm
Releasing Childhood Trauma Through Mind-Body Therapy
Releasing Childhood Trauma is a form of CranioSacral Therapy that encourages body/mind integration and can facilitate the release of physical manifestations of childhood trauma. When childhood trauma occurs, either from physical, sexual or emotional abuse, the abused will sometimes cope in the moment by suppressing the overwhelming experience of the incident, thereby retaining both the emotional and physical energy of the trauma in their body tissues. These techniques were developed by Dr. John E. Upledger, D.O, O.M.M. and brilliantly described in his books written for lay people Your Inner Physician and You: CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release and CranioSacral Therapy: Touchstone for Natural Healing.
Stored trauma can wreak havoc on the body and affect functionality, even if the abused person is not consciously aware of the energies locked in their body. It can manifest as chronic pain, decreased range of motion, fatigue, interrupted or blocked energy flow, sudden mood shifts or outbursts and myriad other dysfunctions, many of which appear to have no explanation.
Dr. Upledger points out in Your Inner Physician and You, “SomatoEmotional Release, when it is effective, changes people’s lives tremendously. It is as though it gives them a chance to see objectively what they are doing with their lives and how they can change for the better. It gives them recall of experiences, traumas, accidents and the like that they have been holding beneath the surface of their awareness for years. Once these suppressed experiences break through the surface, the problems can be dealt with and resolved. When the problem remains suppressed, it can cause trouble, but you don’t know what the cause of the trouble may be, nor do you know the reasons for the symptoms.”
By engaging in this gentle, light touch, hands on form of bodywork, people are able to process these memories and stored experiences at their own pace, in a safe space of neutrality and non-judgment in such a way that can allow the locked energies to dissipate, thereby releasing and correcting the physical dysfunction.
SomatoEmotional Release can also be an excellent adjunct to talk therapy, and in fact often enhances the work done there. Clients report feeling stronger, more grounded, more energetic, and better able to deal with their daily life and responsibilities.
Ramona Ng
Licensed Holistic Practitioner
Maitri Healing
Escaping the Prophet: Escaping Child Sexual Abuse
My friend, Flora Jessop, has dedicated her life to helping children escape child sexual abuse, to break free from the FLDS, the polygamist cult exploiting GOD to sexually abuse children and control women. Her new show on TLC, Escaping the Prophet, finally exposes the horrific crimes taking place right now, right here in the US. To supposedly preserve the bloodline of the one who is considered closest to God, 12 year old children are being given to their own uncles and cousins to become their 3rd, 4th or even 7th wife where they are forced to have a baby every year. In Colorado City, AZ you’ll find run down cemeteries that are for babies only, have you ever heard of a Baby Cemetery? The inbreeding has lead to thousands of birth defects and stillbirths, there are no death certificates and very few gravestones. This is where the forgotten babies are laid to rest. The forgotten boys, to keep the population mostly female, are kicked out of town at age 13 or 14. After being a part of a family of 28+, which btw is supported by the us tax payers in the amount of up to $30,000 per month, they are literally dropped off at the edge of town and told never to return.
See Flora Jessop live on the Huffington Post where she tells of all this and more. At the end, she recommends Those are MY Private Parts. Flora loves my book because it specifcally mentions family members, “Not with my uncle, nephew, niece or dad…”
We can stop child sexual abuse.
#childsexualabuse #sexabuse #childsexualabuseprevention
Reading Resources
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Signs of Abuse
Child Sexual Abuse – Signs to Look For
Signs in Offenders
- Makes you or children feel uncomfortable by lack of respect for boundaries
- Engages in excessive physical contact with children
- Spends more time with children than adults his/her own age
- Spends excessive time emailing and text messaging with children
- Is unusually aware of kid trends, terminology, computer games, and music
- Overly interested in the sexuality or developing body of pre-teens and teens
- Arranges to spend uninterrupted time with kids
- Is “Great with the kids!” or “Too good to be true!”
- Showers kids with gifts, treats, special outings
- Let’s kids break the rules or get away with inappropriate behavior
- Asks kids to keep secrets
Signs in Children
- Physical Signs
- Evidence of physical trauma to the genital or anal areas
- Complaints of pain during urination or bowel movements
- Exhibiting symptoms of genital or urinary tract infections or STDs such as offensive odor, redness, rashes or burning
- Self mutilation (puncturing with pins or cutting)
- Health issues associated with anxiety such as chronic stomach pain or headaches
- Emotional or behavior signs
- Aggressive behavior towards friends and family
- Withdrawal from friends, family or activities they previously enjoyed
- Anxiety or panic attacks
- Phobias
- Fear of certain people, places or activities
- Excessive sadness or depression
- Decreased school performance
- Eating disorders, loss of appetite, gagging
- Sleep disturbances, nightmares, screaming, sweating
- Regressive behaviors, bed wetting, separation anxiety
- Numbing pain with drugs, alcohol or cutting
- Need to be perfect
- Sexual signs
- Increased questions about human sexuality
- Excessive masturbation
- Increased sexual play with friends, pets, toys
- Talking about or acting out specific adult sexual acts
- Increased choice of sexually revealing clothing
- Signs of promiscuity
#childsexualabuse
TAALK Talk About Abuse to Liberate Kids
1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys
will be sexually abused
before the age of 18
That’s 20% of our population!
20% of our children will be sexually abused
20% of our adults have been sexually abused
The Center for Disease Control estimates that 5-20% of the population will get the flu each season. Think of every person who told you that they had the flu this past year or that their spouse had the flu or maybe your own child said he or she had the flu.
Imagine if instead they said:
I was sexually abused by my Dad
My husband was raped by his priest
My teacher touches me down there
Now realize that those people are probably just a fraction of the people YOU know who have experienced child sexual abuse. Just because you don’t know who they are, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. There are survivors all around you – in your community, in your neighborhood, and possibly even in your own home. Will you be the one to start TAALKing?
Is Your Child Being Molested?
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This review is from: Those are MY Private Parts (Paperback)
I love this book. My husband heard about it from a friend and decided to purchase it. It is a great tool to use to assist parents when talking to your little one about inappropriate touches. One of the things I really love about the book is the way it stresses that “those are my private parts.” This phrase is repeated over and over in the book like a refrain. Furthermore, it highlights the fact that inappropriate touches can come from anyone, including a parent. Additionally, the book encourages children to report bad touches to an adult. It is illustrated with cute “little kid” pictures like stick figures and the like. It reads almost like a poem and my children love it. It starts with:This is where the learning starts
About boys and girls and private parts. The front is different; the back is the same. And most important of all, there are no private parts games.Those Are MY Private Parts!Usually my husband and I read the lines, and my children will chant the refrain together……..actually they like to shout it! I’m sure our neighbors have probably heard them shouting “those are my private parts” on more than one occasion! LOL Every time we read this book we use to segue into a discussion with our children about inappropriate touching. I usually quiz them where I give examples of a touch in various scenarios and they have to tell us if it’s “okay” or not. I would highly recommend this book to any parent.
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OHIO Department of Job and Family Services lists Those are My Private Parts
Pause for a child
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention – Books for
Children:
It’s My Body (Children’s Safety & Abuse Prevention)
(Paperback) ~ Lory Freeman
Those are MY Private Parts (Paperback)~ Diane Hansen
Please Tell!: A Child’s Story About Sexual Abuse
(Early Steps) (Paperback)~ Jessie Ottenweller
Your Body Belongs to You (Paperback)~ Cornelia
Maude Spelman (Author), Teri Weidner (Author,
Illustrator)
The Right Touch: A Read-Aloud Story to Help Prevent
Child Sexual Abuse (Jody Bergsma Collection)
(Hardcover)~ Sandy Kleven
Some Parts are Not for Sharing (Paperback)
~ Julie K. Federico
I Said No! A kid-to-kid guide to keeping your private
parts private (Perfect Paperback) ~ Kimberly King
(Author), Sue Rama (Author, Illustrator)
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
The more categories of trauma experienced in childhood, the greater the
likelihood of experiencing:
• alcoholism and alcohol
abuse
• chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease
(COPD)
• depression
• fetal death
• poor health-related
quality of life
• illicit drug use
• ischemic heart disease
(IHD)
• liver disease
• risk for intimate partner
violence
• multiple sexual partners
• sexually transmitted
diseases (STDs)
• smoking
• obesity
• suicide attempts
• unintended pregnancies
http://www.acestudy.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/ACEsFlyer.127152239.pdf
The ACE Study also showed that as
the ACE score increased the number of
risk factors for the leading causes of
death increased. Thus, persons with
high ACE scores are later at much
higher risk for health and medical
conditions resulting from their choice
of remedies for their pain. While these
approaches are effective in the short
term, they often have dire long-term
consequences such as serious chronic
health and social problems.
In addition, the underlying causes of
these problems—adverse
childhood experiences—would
typically go undetected because
of shame, secrecy and social
taboo, which prevent people from
talking about such things
MAINE Coalition Against Sexual Assault includes Those are MY Private Parts in their Lending Library
The Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault is organized to put an
end to sexual violence in Maine and to ensure that there will be
ongoing support and services for victims and survivors.
Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Lending Library Catalog
p.22
Those Are My Private Parts
By: Diane Hansen
Hansen ©2003
Book, 27 pages
Call Number: VI:B12
Parents and caregivers can use this read-aloud
rhyme as a tool to teach children sexual abuse
prevention and empower them to say no.
Appropriate for ages 4-8.
http://www.mecasa.org/joomla/images/pdfs/mecasa%20lending%20library%20final.pdf
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