checked out, not on hold, just lost in the library). A wonderfully talented librarian found a copy hidden in the depths of the stacks. I picked it up at about 3:30pm today, just too excited to wait until after work. I then did wait until after work to read it, finishing it in less than two hours. I now want to quit my job and help abused children. I probably won't follow through with this, but I am just so horrified by the statistic that 1 in 5 American children is physically, mentally, or sexually abused.Friday, October 07, 2005
A Child Called "It"
I had to ask my library to search for A Child Called "It" because both copies were lost (not checked out, not on hold, just lost in the library). A wonderfully talented librarian found a copy hidden in the depths of the stacks. I picked it up at about 3:30pm today, just too excited to wait until after work. I then did wait until after work to read it, finishing it in less than two hours. I now want to quit my job and help abused children. I probably won't follow through with this, but I am just so horrified by the statistic that 1 in 5 American children is physically, mentally, or sexually abused.
checked out, not on hold, just lost in the library). A wonderfully talented librarian found a copy hidden in the depths of the stacks. I picked it up at about 3:30pm today, just too excited to wait until after work. I then did wait until after work to read it, finishing it in less than two hours. I now want to quit my job and help abused children. I probably won't follow through with this, but I am just so horrified by the statistic that 1 in 5 American children is physically, mentally, or sexually abused.
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This is incredibly horrific and makes me sick to my stomach. As does your last post.
This isn't the first place I'd think to post this info, but my email bounced back! The fountain soda machines are mucho expensive (read: thousands of dollars) even just for one or two choices of soda. Oh well. Cans it is.
Kris, thanks for the info. Yes, cans. Until one of us wins Powerball, then it's soda fountains for all. :)
Bryan, you and I see things at different scales. Neither of us is wrong. Both of our scales are needed in order to solve this problem. Because you intend to be a national leader you intend to solve problems on a national or global scale. I have no lofty intentions, so until you are hired into your post and fix all of our problems, this country needs people who will help individuals who need us. Sure, if you look at the problem in a grand scheme it's like making an ice-cube sized dent in an the Arctic, but to the individual children whose lives are altered for the better they are eternally grateful.
Read this book and tell me that Steve Ziegler saving this one child was a waste of time, that Steve should have instead been working on the cure to the global or national problem. If Steve chose the national scale Dave Pelzer would not be able to strongly disagree with your opinion because he would be dead at the hands of his mother. (If you read the book you will know that is not an exaggeration.)
If you help one child, that one child will help another, and that child will help another, and so on.
If anyone had noticed that I was unusually quiet and withdrawn and scared, I wonder how different my life would have been?
Another terrific book that I've also read. Our reading habits and tastes are becoming.....scary!
Peace..............
To piggyback on what you were saying, Poppy, since we also know that abuse begets abuse, that may be one child that gets saved. But it is also that child's children and on and on. AND that one child is now in a position to help others. So while we need a lot on a national scale, every little bit helps.
Misfit, that stinks. :( Did you do something proactive to break the cycle? Your blog makes you sound like a great parent and person!
That book blew me away. I read it in college as part of a book group, and it opened my eyes to things I couldn't have even fathomed existed.
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