Hits: 275Trigger Warning: This post will contain a growing list of MeToo related links to articles on church sexual abuse for the convenience of my followers who need a quick and easy resources to learn more about the overwhelming issues of abuses in churches who harbor criminals instead of notifying the police first. I have […]
Trigger Warning: This post will contain a growing list of #MeToo-related links to articles on church sexual abuse for the convenience of my followers who need quick and easy resources to learn more about the overwhelming issues of abuses in churches that harbor criminals instead of notifying the police first. I have included some helpful […]
Hits: 636I am grateful for the Sunday School Lessons that I had learned when I was a child. Little did I or any of the congregation of the church I attended realize that our Mid-western Bible-based church would be systematically seduced by a cult leader. In retrospect, I can recall that there were red flags […]
Hits: 259This is my personal history of how a good Christian girl, an active member of a loving church, Christian Tabernacle, in a small town in Washington, Iowa was ashamed of her youth group peers who were members of a religious group known as The Walk. Now, that the cult has fallen, I want people […]
I am grateful for the Sunday School Lessons that I learned when I was a child. Little did I or any of the congregation of the Christian Tabernacle church I attended to realize that our Midwestern Bible-based church would be systematically seduced by a cult leader from the West Coast. In retrospect, I can recall […]
This is my personal history of how a good Christian girl, an active member of a loving church, Christian Tabernacle, in a small town in Washington, Iowa was ashamed of her youth group peers who were members of a religious group known as The Walk. Now, that the Church of the Living Word cult has […]
This post will explore the “forgive and forget” advice given to survivors of toxic relationships. I am a survivor a religious movement that turned into an abusive cult. I have rarely discussed this in public, but I think it is time to open up about many things people on the outside wonder about.the #MeToo movement […]
Can you trust health care workers to do their job? What happens when you do not trust a health-care-giver who is very nice and get the work done very fast? Only in a perfect world can you trust a stranger. No employee is perfect- not even me. When a family with a disabled person needs extra ordinary care-taking life is stressful enough – then hire a kind acting stranger who seem to have all the necessary skills to help out – but, they are only there for the pay check and all the extras they can rip off. This post will address some issues with health-care employees that willfully cross the line of neglect and fraud, from my per-spective. Trust in God, but lock your door… For the last 6 1/2 years we have had some very good people in and out of our home to care for my adult son who – BAM! – got hit […]
The most common question children will ask when traveling is “ARE WE THERE YET?” This post will share some of our old fashioned traveling games and some newer ideas from cheap to very nice and neat and more modern… Granny tips for traveling with kids …plus my travel picks from the fun products I just […]
Child’s play is the child’s job. Role playing with a few props or dress up clothes is a necessary tool to growing up in good time. The Child will act out ole what they wee us do -Uh OH! Are we demonstrating out best behavior? Kids watch us parents, grand parents, teachers, doctors, community helpers- then […]
What’s the Big Deal about Sensory Play? Don’t you need flash cards and expensive toys to be able to enroll your future rocket scientist in the right college when they are 2 years old? (I may or may not be exaggerating.) If you ask a dozen people on your block to explain Sensory Play chances […]
My personal story… Why I believe children need to have a toy to hug goes back to when… …I was very young I could not sleep. I was often cold and hungry. My parents worked very hard and had little time for the non-sense of a little girl who constantly begged for input. So I […]
How many times have you sat in waiting room and sat some more with bored kids? Personally, I don’t care to recall how many times we have had to play the Waiting Game. I will guess you have been there and done that too many times too. A friend of mine was going over the […]
What is big deal and why is sensory play important to how children learn? And, what is a Busy Bag or a Busy Box? This post will explain along with 100 things to use for sensory play to put collections of bags and boxes for children to play and learn. We all can name the 5 […]
