Parenting Positively Means Much More Than Not Hitting

“Parenting in a healthy and positive way means so much more than just not hitting your child.”

Hurts Me More Than You: Shade’s Story

“i’m counting for the thunder, hoping for dawn.”

Hurts Me More Than You: Darcy’s Story

“Yes, they loved me. But they also hurt me. One of those is not more real than the other.”

Hurts Me More Than You: Lana and Kate’s Stories

“You learn very young and very quickly that the people who are supposed to be safest and love you will always hurt you.”

Of Children and Horses and Spirit-Breaking

“The negative method does break the horse, but that’s all it does….break them.”

An Interview with “13:24” Author M Dolon Hickmon

“Do your words convey that abuse is unacceptable and that other adults will believe and protect? Because if you are not teaching kids to protect themselves from physical abuse, who will?”

The Survivor

“I’m still me. I am the same person I have always been. Yes I’ve grown and learned and developed as a person through things I’ve done and things I’ve experienced and things that have been done to me. But I’m still me… I am strong and I am a survivor.”