Review of This Business of Children by Chloe JonPaul

...can't keep her mouth shut, not after what happened to Dee, Mark, or Stu – the other fourth grade teachers in her school.

And so begins the complex story of teachers trying to do their job while juggling the events of their own lives during the school year. Testing needs to be done, children dropped off at school too early need to be given winter hats in order to stay warm, romances are started, betrayal happens, and a teacher needs to grieve the completion of her career.

It's also the year when, “after we watched the Challenger blow up, Dee said to me, “Christ, Vera,... (more)

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On MLK Hospital and DCFS: Our Foster Children Gently Weep

Article first published as On MLK Hospital and DCFS: Our Foster Children Gently Weep on Technorati.

On MLK Hospital and DCFS: Our Foster Children Gently Weep.

The Business of Child Abuse

By Joshua Allen

As an amalgamation of failed policies, roads to nowhere, and well-meaning strategies that lead to disappointment and letdown, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) have few equals in obfuscation and futility.

About the only thing the author can reference of similar ineptitude and human damage would be the recent closure of... (more)

Tags: los angeles, corruption, lies, dcfs, mlk hospital, incompetence

The Real Abused Foster Children of Watts and Compton.

The REAL Abused Foster Children of Watts and Compton!

The Business of Child Abuse

By Joshua Allen

Article first published as The Real Abused Foster Children of Watts and Compton on Technorati.

Abused children; they are all shapes, ages, races, and colors. Abused children arrive into foster care tortured, screamed at, beaten, shaken, slapped, whipped, ignored, neglected, raped, burned, sexually molested, driven crazy, and a million other things terrible to imagine and witness.

Adults perpetrate these horrible crimes towards children. And the rub, after these... (more)

Tags: los angeles, business, corruption, child abuse, foster children

Bestseller Shows Children They Can Make a Difference

Joining us today is Nancy Stewart, author of the bestselling children's picture book, One Pelican at a Time. After having been both an elementary school teacher and a university professor of education, Nancy ow writes full time. She, her husband and three sons, lived in London for eight years, where she was a consultant to several universities, including Cambridge. She travels extensively throughout the world, most particularly Africa. Nancy is the US chair of a charity in Lamu, Kenya, that places girls in intermediate schools to allow them to further their education. She and her family... (more)

Tags: author interview, nancy stewart, samantha bell, one pelican at a time, 2010 gulf oil spill, bestselling children's books

The Power of The Children's Bible Stories In The Lives of Yo

Given a scenario in which the federal government ordered a law to prohibit using bibles, how would you find ways to pass on the words of God to your kids?There are actually Children's Bible Stories that can be used as a way to share the words of God to your children.Your children, based on the experts have young minds, is at the phase in which they learn almost everything they pick up and see. This is when they could be guided to judge from what is good from what is bad.Because it is our responsibility to instill the young minds of our children the words of God, story-telling is a wonderful... (more)

Tags: bible games, children's bible

Parents with Children Should Read This - Social sites

I’m cluing you in on a dilemma on children mis-using MySpace and Facebook that could be dangerous. It’s happening every where including in the U.S.A..

I’ve been noticing that today’s kids are trying to get attention by using social networks. How do I know this? Both my children were involved as well.

My daughter at age 13 had her friend make her site for her. Problem

She had her address and phone number listed, and my phone would ring from places states away. She had her age set for 27! Not 13, results she was getting messages from people with very bad foul... (more)

Tags: family, children, parent warnings

The Children That Watch Us

...head and found the dark red spot to be mushy and soft. The blow did nothing but become absorbed into the kid’s doughy head. "No," she whispered and the world fell silent.

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"Lauren!" Corey's mother screamed, but she was only answered by the cold wind and the laughter of dead children.

"Inside!" his father said. "It's too late now."

"What the hell are you talking about Mark?"

Corey lied on the couch with his swollen body. He began to remember the mask and costumes those four strange kids wore. "They smelt like death," Corey said.

"Because they... (more)

Tags: death, halloween, short story, horror, Stephen King, murder, l. vera, scary, trick or treat, campfire story, the children that watch us

Hungry Children in a Self Sufficient Country.

... Council of India in a report says that the Food and Beverages industry in India is worth $300 billion. And in terms of production, India is the third largest producer of food grains in the world (230 tonnes per year).

But it is rather a painful irony that, there are actually millions of children in India who still go to bed Hungry, their families unable to afford the simple, humble five rotis and sabji.

The 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) released by the International Food policy Research Institute ranked India a disgraceful 67th among 84 countries that it rated. The GHI is... (more)

Tags: children, poverty, hunger, indian food, malnutrition

LA Foster Care: The Best Interests of Children?

One of my all-time favorite movies is Casino which was directed by Martin Scorsese. In it, there is a particular scene that comes to mind every time DCFS officials do something which on the face of it is done to protect the best interests of foster children but which ends up doing quite the opposite.

The main character in the movie Spilotro played by Joe Peschi is a truly violent monstrosity. He is an angry killer who slaughters without compunction when it serves his needs.

His nominal bosses living in another city are several old mobsters, some in wheel chairs; others hooked... (more)

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Street Children Are a Waiting Disaster in Africa

Children on streets are becoming too numerous in Africa. This is due to several factors like lack of social and political interest to protect them as the future for the national development. But despite this, I still believe that we are not waiting to revive Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal to the Irish government in the wake of increased street children on Irish streets, to consent to the plight in our countries. In fact, in the minds of Swift, since there were many street children whom the city and perhaps government authorities had failed to contain or rid off the streets, the said children... (more)

Tags: children, africa, street, disaster