Things That Make My Day

Things That Make My Day
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Monday, August 4, 2014

A Goodreads quote - what we inadvertedly teach the children


Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. 

August 2, 1943: The day author James Baldwin turned 19, he attended his stepfather's funeral and witnessed the start of a riot in Harlem. He wrote about all these events in his book of essays, Notes of a Native Son.

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perhaps one of the reasons children of abusers also become abusers....... see, they think that it is okay to abuse because they see it being done and being condoned.  It is also okay to be abused because it is commonplace in their lives.

so we must also do what we say, because we are the shining - i hope - examples for the children;
not just our own, but all the children

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