Missing children – Neglected, hurting, lost, confused and alone.  According to The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, about 2,185 children are reported missing each and every day.  That is 797,500 each year.  Are you paying attention?  2,185 PER DAY! 

If you’re reading this, you are probably a parent.  What would you do?  If you went to the store, to the park or the mall and turned around only to find that your child is gone.  You race around, panicked, asking everyone in sight if they’ve seen him/her, call the police.  No one has seen your baby.  You drop to the floor.  Your whole world is gone in the blink of an eye. 

Child abuse -  According to ChildHelp.org, a report of child abuse is made every 5 seconds.  Almost 5 children die EVERY DAY as a result of child abuse, 75% of those are under the age of 4.  I hope that this information has given you chills.  It sure did me. 

I hope that you picture your child and what you would feel like if someone hurt them.  What you would do if you saw bruises on their little body, pain and loneliness in their heart and fear in their eyes because they just don’t understand.  No child deserves this.  Not yours and not any other. 

I’m not writing this to ruin your day.  I’m writing it because I believe that a little bit of knowledge can go a long way when put into the right hands.  Hands that have a lot of heart.  And, who has more heart than a parent when concerning a child?.

I have had it in my heart for a long time now to help raise awareness to both of these fights.  There is a lot of work to be done, and I feel we should all do our best, as parents and people, to contribute.

In order to help raise awareness, I will be featuring a new missing child each week on my blog. In addition to the featured missing child, I would like to invite you, my fellow bloggers to participate by featuring the week’s child as well. To make each blog unique, I would like each blogger to write their reasons as to why it shouldn’t hurt to be a kid.  This could be something that your child did that made you smile, a favorite childhood memory of your own or just something special to you regarding children. 

I will have my “No More Missing Monday” post up every Sunday evening by 6 p.m. Eastern so that everyone has plenty of time to copy the featured missing child picture and information.  I would like all of the blogs to have the same child featured for one reason… can you imagine the impact it would have if every single person that writes and/or reads these blogs has ONE child on their mind at a time?  ONE picture?  ONE name?  Every one of them, every one of the millions and millions located in all different cities in all different states, would be looking for that ONE girl or boy.  Can you imagine how powerful that would be?  I don’t want this to turn into the wall of missing children at your local grocery store.  Where you look at it, but there are so many faces not a single one sticks in your mind.  If every single blogger had a different child… it would turn into that wall. 

The children featured will be randomly selected off of The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s registry. 

Thanks for hanging with me through this book of a post I wrote… I sure hope that everyone gets involved and we can start making a difference.  Today.