Many years ago, back in 1921, in a nice quiet neighborhood in Minneapolis, Patty, just five years old,was molested, by her friend’s father. She never went back to play and she never told. she wantS children to be empowered to tel! Patty shares her story, in her own words in
What Should You Do? Helping Children Protect Themselves in the Twenty-First Century, Tate Publishing 2010
When my sister in law Patty found out I was writing this book, she described what had happened to her when she was five, for the very first time. To her surprise, she found out her sisters were bothered by the same man….we must teach that after they say no to bad behavior and go to a safe place they must TELL, to save themselves and future targets as well. Her father, a motorcycle cop in Minneapolis would surely have been proactive in taking care of this
Bad behavior, if Patty had confided in him or her mother.