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n : the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children
Dear Teddy Teddy, I’ve been bad again,
my mommy told me so
I tried my best to be real
good, and do just what she said
‘Cause she hit me awful hard,
you see, and called me funny names
So I came up here to talk to
you, please tell me what to do
So teddy, I wish you were real,
and you weren’t just a teddy bear
And if we could make them listen,
maybe then they’d understand
~ Author Unknown ~
A Prayer for Children We pray for children who put chocolate fingers everywhere, who like to be tickled, who stomp in puddles and ruin their new pants, who sneak popsicles before supper, who erase holes in math workbooks, who can never find their shoes. And we pray for those who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire, who can't bound in the street in a new pair of sneakers, who never go to the circus, who live in an X-rated world. We pray for children who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions, who sleep with the dog and bury the goldfish, who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money, who cover themselves with Band-Aids and sing off key, who squeeze toothpaste all over the sink, who slurp their soup. And we pray for those who never get dessert, who have no safe blanket to drag behind them, who watch their parents watch them die, who can't find any bread to steal, who don't have any rooms to clean up, whose monsters are real. We pray for children who spends all their allowance before Tuesday, who throw tantrums in the grocery store and pick at their food, who like ghosts stories, who shove dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse the tub, who get visits from the tooth fairy, who don't like to be kissed in front of the carpool, who squirm in church and scream in the phone, whose tears we sometimes laugh at, and whose smiles can make us cry. And we pray for those whose nightmares come in the daytime, who will eat anything, who aren't spoiled by anybody, who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep, and who live and move, but have no being. We pray for children who want
to be carried and for those who must, for those we never give up on and
for those who don't get a second chance. For those we smother....and for
those who will grab the hand of anybody kind enough to offer it.
~ Author Unknown ~ Precious face so full of tears
Try not to cry my little one
Forgive yourself, you've done
no wrong
For every child that's loved
and more
~ Author Unknown ~
"When mistreatment becomes
abuse, children are injured, neglected, and emotionally damaged.
Excerpt from
"It shouldn't hurt to be a child." "A child is only a child once,
This is not an easy site to
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If you or someone you know
are
National Child Abuse Hotline
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