Child time-out

the moment I saw that they were interviewing her. Thankfully, Tonya had some time recently to chat with me about the evolution of her career as well as her perspective on life and the pursuit of one's dreams, including her prospects for the future. RH: Why did you choose entertainment as a career? TK: Well, I got arrested when I was a teenager, and I decided that the way I was living my life was not really working out. Me fitting into the "nine to five," traditional, small-town world made…

constructed quite fancily with vines and jewels. Sapphire, Moonstone, Ruby, Emerald, Topaz, all in a spiral. He remembered a song that he loved. It was by a Sigma-Alpha man who called himself “Thryk”, the song was called “Danger Meets my Eye”: All this time I sit around with my whole life left to come, People don’t consider to know my life or where I’m from. You see me turn my life on like everything’s so right, Just looking normal when danger meets my eye. Just see inside my soul, you’ll know…

In 2014 a child entered foster care every two minutes (Statistics, 2014). Out of the four-hundred thousand children in foster care, twenty percent of those are teenagers between the ages of sixteen and twenty (Helping Youth, 2013). Out of that twenty percent, one in five teenagers will essentially emancipate or sign them out of care if they are not adopted before the age of eighteen leaving many jobless, homeless, throwing away education, and with very little independent living skills (Helping…

Sometimes Mask Poor Communication”, it stated “For many people, their communication skills with loved ones are not as strong as they may think.” (U.S. News and World Report, 2011) Whether it is husband and wife or parent and child or even between co-workers, if you both don’t take the time to really listen then there will be some kind of miscommunication going on. So where did I go wrong…

Lucretius explained the fear of children when approaching unknown scenarios. This is how it must feel for a child that has to enter an unknown system with multiple flaws. For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true (Lucretius quoted in Bartlett’s F.Q. 113). This quote is saying that everyone is afraid of the worst, and we sit and…

health declining and having no one else to care for him, the child services took him from her. Hope became institutionalized and Andy was forced to go to a child care facility that was more like a prison. On the first night…

Three Little Words is a biography about Ashley Rhodes, a little girl who was born into an unsafe family. Her father died, her mom's boyfriend was abusive, and her mom is spinning out of control. In nine years, she lived with fourteen different foster homes. As she lives with somewhat loving families-in one case abusive- she starts caving under the pressure of living without her mother, until she finds the perfect family, and she learns how to say those three little words. Two year old…

Reasons for Choosing Social Work Playing dress up as a child is supposed to be fun. Children pretend to be things they want to be; including adults; without ever mulling over what adults do. Adults work, get paid, do adult things. Children may not know what any of this really means, but to them, adults may seem to have more freedoms than they do. While many limitations placed on children are protective, many adults use those limitations to abuse children. Abuse was not something unfamiliar at…

either one or the other of them that did not think the other one was in their right mind, but it did not stop them from caring about each other. Then there were the others. No, she did not understand them at all (most of the time), but that was okay. High school was a long time ago. The dreams they had made for themselves then had changed. So many things had changed. Yet what they were to each other did not. It would be hard to change a bond that had been forged by death and kidnappings.…

scary things. As a child, and even now, these things take a huge toll on how I deal with other things. I have always been an anxious person and I can definitely say that traumatic experiences (like the one I am writing about) have changed my mindset and how I live my daily life. The day started of fairly normal. My friend had just got her license and she offered to take me to Washington, Missouri to go shopping and just have a fun day out. I was really excited to finally go out without a…