This week’s question had to do with some difficult topics covered in the past couple of weeks, like, group punishment and mediation rooms. I was curious what some of you might have experienced as a child that prevented you from telling someone. Here was the question: “As a child, did something ever happen to you or another child you knew, and you didn’t tell your parents? Why do you think you didn’t you tell them? Was it possible you believed what happened to May (not in Women of a Promiscuous Nature, but in a resource book) might have happened to you?
Here was my own experience in fourth grade:
Something happened in school when I was growing up that, if it happened today, someone would possibly be sent to jail. I had a teacher in fourth grade, and her name was Mrs. Shinsky. She became frustrated with a student, Robert, and pinched the bridge of his nose so hard, her fingernail dug in and created a bright red crescent mark. He screamed, and she sent us out of the classroom. Later, when Robert came out to the playground, he wore a bandaid across his nose and he was very subdued. Don’t I wish I knew what happened after we were sent outside for an unexpected recess? Don’t I wish I’d told my mother?!?!? I didn’t. I can’t explain why.
Children keep secrets and I think while adults/parents today attempt to make them aware of right/wrong by adults, they still tend keep quiet under certain conditions/circumstances.
On to the winner of this week’s signed ARC – Nancy Timmerman!
Congratulations, Nancy! You win a signed Advance Reader Copy of the book! Please PM, comment (on Facebook) or email me at deverhart2@nc.rr.com with your address so I can get your book in the mail.🎁📫
See you all this Friday! NOTE: Friday posts will now publish at 9:00 a.m. EDT
