Our mission is to provide parents with 'help and hope when parenting gets tough', by teaching nurturing and non-violent parenting skills. The sculpture serves as a symbol of that 'hope' which we want to instill in all families. The solution must start somewhere, the somewhere is with us as individuals, parents and families. MaryJo West, The Phoenix Channel and Phoenix Fire Dept. In what proves to be desperate, fearful times for all of us, with government cutbacks, employer layoffs, homelessness and hunger, we suffer our children with violence - psychological, verbal and physical.
Violence is a symptom of our fears.
Violence uses negative, reactionary energy - zapping us of our true strength and power. Please, exert the same energy to release your fear as used to feed your fear. For the sake of all children, we release our fear through empathy and stop the violence with conviction, courage and love. In the blink of an eye, the tick of a clock, the beat of a heart, violence changes lives and generations.