Description

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The effects of toxic narcissism can begin at home and carry on throughout the school years and even into later career life. Toxic people enter our lives unannounced with no warning labels. We need warning labels. Signs. Hints. Awareness.

"Toxic Waste" is a series of books educating children and young adults about such dangerous people and how to navigate around, with and away from them. Eventually the encouragement to go "no contact" with such people is a near given but until one is an adult, that luxury cannot be achieved in most cases.

Thus, this series is here to help educate and encourage the trusting and innocent, still at home, still in the system that is not always a good one. Childhood abandonment is child abuse and takes on many subtle covert and grossly overt costumes and in too many cases, the child only figures this fact out too much later in life. To paraphrase Nina Simone, 'if love isn't served, it is time to leave the table'.

I hope these books which will look unflinching at the random, bizarre and often clandestine behaviors of poor parents, clergy, teachers, siblings "friends", coworkers via self absorbed and selfish mindsets and recurrent ignorant traditions, might help the youth in ways that could hopefully short circuit much of the harm these adults and family bullies knowingly or unknowingly perpetrate.

This is the first in a series on healthy, bolstering supports for children with sensitive and empathic hearts. They will give
kids a reason to protect themselves while remaining true to the love we need not let go of while gaining independent strengths, talents and confidence.- Peter Gullerud

www.gullerudbooks.com.