Dear Reader,
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Welcome to my website! My
name is Andrea and I am undergraduate student at Texas Christian University. I’m
pursuing a degree in elementary education with an emphasis in special education.
The course that this website is associated with is called “The Critical
Analysis of Children’s Literature” and by far it has been one of my favorite
education classes I have taken. It has taught me the importance we have as
future teachers to talk to our students about really hard social issues by
using children’s books. It is incredible the power of a picture book can have on a
child.
I decided to research more on how to talk to children about child abuse, because I have been a bystander of child abuse when I was a young girl. Somebody I knew when was being abused when we were in 4th grade, and she decided to tell me about it, but as an 11-year-old girl I did not know what to do or what to say to her. She did not feel supported by me, and I believe it was hard for her to tell anybody else about it. I was not able to talk to anybody about it because I was scared of what would happen to her or what could happen if I told someone about it. I never had the chance to talk about it to a professional until I was a teenager. I would have loved if I would have been educated enough to be able to do something about it and speaking up for her. Awareness and prevention of child abuse can be done using children's books!
One year later, she was able to tell to her parents about the situation. She immediately got attention by professionals and she now declares herself a survivor of child abuse. Seeing her suffer was not easy to me, especially because I did not know what to say to her or how to help her. That is why talking to children about child abuse is so important. We can’t forget to address this topic, even if it is an uncomfortable topic to talk about it is vital that our children are well informed. Prevention is key to evade child abuse!
I hope that my website is helpful for teachers, parents, and even counselors!
Happy browsing!
Sincerely,
Andrea
I decided to research more on how to talk to children about child abuse, because I have been a bystander of child abuse when I was a young girl. Somebody I knew when was being abused when we were in 4th grade, and she decided to tell me about it, but as an 11-year-old girl I did not know what to do or what to say to her. She did not feel supported by me, and I believe it was hard for her to tell anybody else about it. I was not able to talk to anybody about it because I was scared of what would happen to her or what could happen if I told someone about it. I never had the chance to talk about it to a professional until I was a teenager. I would have loved if I would have been educated enough to be able to do something about it and speaking up for her. Awareness and prevention of child abuse can be done using children's books!
One year later, she was able to tell to her parents about the situation. She immediately got attention by professionals and she now declares herself a survivor of child abuse. Seeing her suffer was not easy to me, especially because I did not know what to say to her or how to help her. That is why talking to children about child abuse is so important. We can’t forget to address this topic, even if it is an uncomfortable topic to talk about it is vital that our children are well informed. Prevention is key to evade child abuse!
I hope that my website is helpful for teachers, parents, and even counselors!
Happy browsing!
Sincerely,
Andrea