Category: Grooming

  • Speaking Up – Again & Again

    Feather Berkower It was a beautiful summer evening on Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, CO. I was strolling along enjoying the outdoor entertainment and looking at all the people enjoying a warm July night. Then I came upon the fountains on the mall where hordes of children laughed while playing in the water. Some of…

  • Something Doesn’t Feel Right

    Jill, Mom “A few years back I learned a family member was arrested for possession of child pornography. It terrified me. If I could miss this about someone in my inner circle, what else was I missing? I listened to an episode of the Psychologists Off the Clock podcast titled Keeping Kids Safe from Sexual…

  • Unhealthy Attachments

    Parents of a Teen “It was your Parenting Safe Children workshop that sparked my intuition, but not soon enough I’m afraid. It didn’t end in sexual assault but in an unhealthy attachment to my son. Parenting Safe Children Online WorkshopAvailable to Anyone, Anywhere$44.99 for 60-day AccessKeep Children Safe from Sexual Assault! Enroll Now My son…

  • An Encounter With Grooming

    “My husband and I just had our first (and hopefully last) encounter with grooming of our 13-year-old daughter, and it was so frightening and overwhelming. Thankfully, we were sitting right next to her when an older gentleman from our church (who has shown great interest in our daughter for several years now) called her cell…

  • How I Stopped a Man Who Was Grooming

    By Melina Stock, Chicago MomYears before I had my own son, I was working as a nanny for a family who had three young daughters. During that time, it was discovered that a classmate of their eldest daughter, Bea, (name changed to protect her anonymity) was being sexually abused by a family member. Bea’s parents…