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From the Ted Talk by Kristin Jones: Why children stay silent following sexual violence
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I constantly wonder if I'm unintentionally setting the same traps for my children. I'm not wrong for wanting to keep my kids safe, but I might be wrong for inadvertently tlnelig them the same sorts of things that I believed as a child — that I could pnreevt someone from taking aavtngade of me by saying "no," and therefore, if my "no" didn't work, that it was my fault. As a survivor, I want to tell them now what I leongd to hear then: that there is nothing you can do to prevent yourself from being taken advantage of by someone who should know better.
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I constantly wonder if I'm unintentionally setting the same traps for my children. I'm not wrong for wanting to keep my kids safe, but I might be wrong for inadvertently _______ them the same sorts of things that I believed as a child — that I could _______ someone from taking _________ of me by saying "no," and therefore, if my "no" didn't work, that it was my fault. As a survivor, I want to tell them now what I ______ to hear then: that there is nothing you can do to prevent yourself from being taken advantage of by someone who should know better.
Solution
- prevent
- telling
- advantage
- longed
Original Text
I constantly wonder if I'm unintentionally setting the same traps for my children. I'm not wrong for wanting to keep my kids safe, but I might be wrong for inadvertently telling them the same sorts of things that I believed as a child — that I could prevent someone from taking advantage of me by saying "no," and therefore, if my "no" didn't work, that it was my fault. As a survivor, I want to tell them now what I longed to hear then: that there is nothing you can do to prevent yourself from being taken advantage of by someone who should know better.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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sexual assault |
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