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Parenting is one of the hardest things that a person can do. You’re responsible for another life. It’s your job to keep your kids safe and it’s your job to love them. There are some parents who fail at this utterly and their children end up in the foster care system. Sometimes it isn’t because of malicious behavior but because of circumstances. Sometimes, though, it’s because parents are simply horrible people and their children have suffered while being in their care. This is the type of situation two little girls were removed from and this is the story of their ability to overcome their horrible past.
Amy Beth Gardner
Amy Beth Gardner
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These memories can be brought on by a particular trigger or instance, or in the case of this story, by a certain holiday.
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Bad memories of Halloween
For most kids Halloween is a time of serious delight. They get to pick out a costume, dress up, pretend they’re their favorite character, and then go around the neighborhood getting free candy that’ll last them for weeks, if not a month or two. Halloween is the second favorite holiday of every kid (Christmas being the first). But for Amy Beth’s two little girls this wasn’t the case. Halloween for them was a great source of anxiety and Amy Beth noticed that right away.
The first year that the girls lived with Amy Beth and her husband they froze every time either one of them mentioned Halloween. That isn’t a typical child’s response and so she sat the girls down and asked them if they had ever taken part in Halloween before arriving at the Gardner’s house. The two little girls told her that they had, but Amy Beth quickly realized this was going to be a horrible story.
One Halloween after trick or treating, the girls had their candy taken away from them by an adult (Amy Beth didn’t elaborate which adult in the girls’ past did this). The adult then ate it in front of them while making the girls watch. Seeing this, the girls began to cry, and the adult then gave the empty wrappers of the candy back to the girls and forced them to eat the wrappers. That was the most prominent memory that
One day a little girl that lived in the neighborhood had been murdered. So they can’t go trick or treating alone and they had to go in a group with a parent
It was Friday the 13th in Halloween Town, Louisiana. A group of four teenagers, Phil, Lee, Aaron, and Craig, wanted to visit an old abandon house in town where supposedly, very eccentric, spooky things occur. Each kid had heard hundreds of stories about teenagers, just like them, going into the house and never coming out, as their parents and elders had told them all their lives. However, even after being warned about the horrifying house, the kids, for some very odd reason, still wanted to see for themselves if the stories were true. Thus, the kids devised a plan to meet at the house at 11 o’clock that night.
Halloween is the point at which you cut Jack o' Lanterns out of pumpkins, design the house with a ghoulish topic, parties, and go trap or treating way to entryway wearing ensembles. Halloween is praised by both kids and grown-ups. Kids spruce up in
Jenna felt her stomach begin to growl and she thought of the dinner her father had prepared for them before he’d left for work. Spaghetti and meatballs with cheesy garlic bread, her absolute favorite. The very thought of it was now making Jenna 's mouth water as she licked her lips in hunger. She silently wished that she would have eaten earlier with her father back when he had just finished cooking it. That was right before he had kissed her on the cheek, told her he loved her, and headed off to work the night shift as a paramedic at Saint Christopher 's Hospital. But, she was too excited about Halloween to eat just then, the anticipation of trick-or-treating being such a short time away filling her every thought with joy. She was a
We all remember dressing up for Halloween night as children. Getting together with best friends and competing to see who has the best costume or can collect the most candy. For some, this was the best night of the year. Then there are the children who sit at home and go through the motions of what their parents do. These parents inevitably will carve a generic looking pumpkin and then sit down and hand out candy to kids the remainder of the night. The children that are staying at home with their parents are handing out candy to the kids who are living and enjoying their Halloween. As Mac Hammond in “Halloween” stresses, the children that are out having fun on Halloween are the true
Introduction: Patrons of the season of Halloween spend over $2.5 billion dollars every year on candy, costumes, and decorations. Every year millions of kids get dressed up, knock on doors, and beg for candy. Have you ever wondered where this strange tradition originated? The three most important points of Halloween can be summed up by looking at its origins, how it came to include jack-o-lanterns and bobbing for apples, and how it is celebrated today with trick-or-treating and haunted houses.
She rolls her eyes while my youngest son runs around the house in his pirate zombie costume. We have learned the origins of Halloween for years, some say it is the celebration of the dead, others say is the Wiccan practice, a pagan celebration. Add the urban myths about candy filled with glass, apples injected with poison, and you have the perfect recipe to keep your kids scarred for life.
These traditions were connected with the lower class at the time and so they were also connected with crime, rowdy behavior and other stereotypes the upper class believed about the poor. Of course people who were part of the upper class did not like this and by the 1870s they had turned Halloween into a holiday to make children into “good American citizens.” Halloween was now targeted towards children and because of that families were encouraged to celebrate it at home where food, games and other entertainment would have adult supervision. By doing this children were expected to understand the values society holds, while also learning about their proper gender roles. At this point we are able to start to see how Halloween became so heavily influenced by gender roles/stereotypes and how that led to the over-sexualized holiday it is now. Trick or treating and wearing Halloween costumes became popular in America around the 1920s and by the 1950s children’s costumes were extremely reflective of their sex. (Bannatyne.) Girls were dressed as princesses and angels while boys were army men, hobos and so on. However, as cute and adorable as this is or may have been, this creates a very thick line between genders. When that line is present it is alluding to children that
Misery, abandonment, and no love, how can one let a child grow up with thoughts so negative running through their minds? Children are removed from their homes, forced to live in strangers houses, and expected to behave like they live in a stable living environment. All this is occurring so fast, that they can’t process their situation and feel like they don’t have anyone in the world that loves them. Although our nation claims to be doing the best they can with child welfare, the entire program has focused their efforts on removing children from their homes instead of focusing on the child’s emotional needs. Mr. President, we need to fix this issue now because children are the future. When a family is torn apart because allegations of abuse, neglect, or financial issues, placing a child in foster care, rather than trying to fix the problem, can only further damage a child’s well being.
Then, a Christmas tree that Sally was holding spontaneously combusts. This points toward halloween because it was scary. It was scary because she was holding it and all of a sudden it just caught on fire. It was also scary because it kind of predicted how Christmas would go.
I have known Angelica Colman my whole life. We’ve both lived in the save houses our entire lives up until high school. Angelica’s was one over across the street and I could see from my front window whether or not see was home. As far back as I could remember every as far back as I can remember when she got back from the daycare where her mother worked; I would get on my bike or gather some toys so we could play together until dinner time.
Being able to remember good memories from your childhood is always a joyful thing. Kristen Robertson grandmother shared her childhood tea party memory with her by doing it with her whenever Kristen had a day off from school. I know how it is when football season comes around and so does Kristen’s mother and her brother, football bring families closer than ever. Sometimes things that are passed down throughout but it can be difficult making sure it stays in good condition for the next
Laws in most states mandate that reasonable efforts be provide to families who become involved with child welfare agencies. Social workers, on behalf of the agency toil to provide reasonable efforts to families. Presumptively, reasonable efforts are provided for families to mitigate the issues that brought them to the attention of child protection agency.
Halloween: the holiday where as kids we couldn’t wait to go door to door to achieve the golden goal of a full bag of candy. Halloween soon turns into a question mark for teens; in an instant, there is a change of when it is ‘appropriate’ to go trick-or-treating and when you should just move on. Are you the one who thinks Trick-or-treating is lame or the one who still walks around your neighborhood every year -- no matter how many dirty looks you may get. What teenagers decide to do on Halloween varies: going to a party, passing out candy, staying home are a few popular options. Throughout my highschool experience I have been able to witness and experience all different types of halloteens, each with their own traits.
‘Halloween (monsters)’ is a poem written and performed by four girls of the 2013 DC Youth Slam Team, a youth program of the social justice & activism non-profit, Split This Rock. ‘Halloween’ is about the views of women and how some aspects of society tend to objectify women because of their discomfort of an empowering woman. It is based on the societal issues of inequality, objectification, empowerment, and acceptance. The theme of ‘overcoming challenges’ is first presented in this text when the girls say “Society is trying to squeeze the fantasy out of us. Turn our feminine fatal so this year l think I'll be MONSTER”. Another part that links to this is when they say “Finessing curves into eye candy instead of masterpiece 'American' beauty turned apple pie cutie”.