This week’s Friday Fill-Ins made me laugh because they are really, really specific. And something about #3 makes me think of elementary school homework projects. Maybe the kind where we had to read a passage… Friday Fill-Ins

Monkey’s Money I will pay you in monkey’s money (‘en monnaic de singe’) – in goods, in personal work, in mumbling and grimace. The French had a law that when a monkey passed the Petit… monkeyshines

Thirteen Things about Traveling for Fun They’re experimenting with giving us topics every week over at the Thursday Thirteen site. I hope it’s not mandatory. but I think I can bend a lot of them… Thursday Thirteen: Triumphing over abuse via travel

Things that have worked with Connor: – Encouraging them to draw and to explain their pictures to you – Teaching them grounding exercises, especially for anxiety – Helping them identify when they don’t feel safe… Talking to children about abuse

Like many modern families, my son’s has included a lot of family friends, godparents, parents’ partners, and other more ephemeral members. Of course, many of us do not have any legal rights as far as… Talk to kids about abuse!

Teresa, the creator of Frog Applause, shared some awesome and very relevant strips with me and gave me permission to share them here with you! And you can enjoy the collaboration against sexual abuse strip… Applaud the frogs

This is not strictly abuse-related, but you can win a chocolate monkey. And everything should be chocolate monkey-related, right? Everything good, anyway. DeweyMonster is starting a new meme called Weekly Geeks. The most basic of… Sunday Salon: The Saturdays

This week has seen a tremendous burst of thoughtful, interesting comments all over this blog. I’ve had some inspiring discussions and learned some new things, and I’m very excited by how many great new readers… I love you guys!

This is a new meme – new to me! They put out a set of fill-in-the-blank sentences each week and everyone gets to fill them in and share. I’ve been meaning to post more personal… Friday Fill-Ins

FlyLady is Marla Cilley, the founder of a website – or the center of a movement – that helps people all over the world release the chaos in their lives. FlyLady began as her username… Tools of Recovery: FlyLady