I was at a flea market today and found the book A Child Called It, I also found the book The Lost Boy which is the sequal to the other one. I can't believe I found both of them.
The books are about child abuse, and they are true storys too.Originally Posted by kittydad
WTG, what are the books about?
Bet they were a great find and a wonderful end to a good day.
I know that just from reading the back of the book that they are gonna be very sad. I just don't understand how a mother can abuse her own child like this one did.Originally Posted by kittydad
Oh wow. Hope you enjoy them. And they sound interesting too.
Yes it does seem amazing that he is the man that he is today. I will hafta check up on some more of his books then.Originally Posted by ReesesPBC
David Pelzer is my favorite author...well considering I don't readI read ACCI years ago and it got me hooked on his books. My wife and I both have all of them, ACCI, Lost Boy, a Man Named Dave and I think there's another..well atleast that's all I have up to, I'm sure he's written more. It's courageous to know that after what he went through he grew up to be the man he is today.
No, A Child Called It is about a man named David Pelzer and his experiences growing up in a house with a severely abusive mother and a passive father who I believe was a drinker, but didn't abuse him, just ignored everything. She'd lock him in the basement, beat him, starve him etc.. It's a really gut wrenching book.Originally Posted by Godiva
Admittedly, I have not read the books, but isn'tA Child Called It about parents that had a hemaphroditic child who decided they wanted to be the other sex when they got older (opposite from one assigned at birth) and the parents wouldn't let the kid change his mind and grow up as a girl?
Maybe that's something totally different... probably.
ya thats not a child called it, hmm i never heard of that oneOriginally Posted by Godiva
Admittedly, I have not read the books, but isn'tA Child Called It about parents that had a hemaphroditic child who decided they wanted to be the other sex when they got older (opposite from one assigned at birth) and the parents wouldn't let the kid change his mind and grow up as a girl?
Maybe that's something totally different... probably.
Are you serious? Wow. There should honestly be a law saying that you can't name your child certain things.Originally Posted by SwampWitch
When I was teaching preschoolers with language delays (in a low socio-economic area), one of the children had a little brother coming into our class the next year whose legal name was Poo-Poo Head. This is what his mother put on the birth certificate! We were trying to figure out what to call him; nothing was good... Poo? Poo-Poo? PP? PP Head? So sad.
That's what we all said. But, who should have that kind of power? You'd think a parent would automatically love the baby enough to give him or her a decent name, but sometimes that love just isn't there.Originally Posted by ReesesPBC
Are you serious? Wow. There should honestly be a law saying that you can't name your child certain things.
Yeah that's the tough part. Who's to say what a unappropriate name is. What if your last name is Hertz and you want to name your son Richard? But Poo-Poo Head? Either she was on drugs or she has a sick sense of humor.Originally Posted by SwampWitch
That's what we all said. But, who should have that kind of power? You'd think a parent would automatically love the baby enough to give him or her a decent name, but sometimes that love just isn't there.
That is so sad, I woulda had to come up with something, Sweetie, or Punkin, or some really sweet name. That poor little boy probably had no self esteem either.Originally Posted by SwampWitch
When I was teaching preschoolers with language delays (in a low socio-economic area), one of the children had a little brother coming into our class the next year whose legal name was Poo-Poo Head. This is what his mother put on the birth certificate! We were trying to figure out what to call him; nothing was good... Poo? Poo-Poo? PP? PP Head? So sad.