"Words can be as painful as beatings, as verbal vituperation is a spiritual attack as well. Verbal abuse transforms words into weapons for the recipient. While words do not leave a traditional permanent mark that is visible on the body, they do leave an emotional, psychic scar, one that follows children into adulthood. This venomous energy tinges everything for that individual. Many healers can pick up on these emotional scars in the body’s energy field years later. Abuse like this causes copious physical illness. We bottle up what assailed us, the contemptuous, coarse, insulting words; we hold within what we felt we were; reviled. Anything that diminishes a child’s spirit is abuse, whether through words, slaps, emotional manipulation, belittling a child’s dreams and aspirations, guilt tripping, sexual abuse, or physical, emotional, or spiritual neglect."


Paraphrase
Verbal abuse is just as bad as physically abuse a child. Verbal abuse makes a child's sprites come down. Words do not leave scars on the outside but words do tear up a person on the inside. Verbal abuse can make someone has many different illnesses when they grow older. Verbal abuse can make a persons energy decrease fast! There are different verities of abuse that can hurt a person inside and out.


Citation
Stauffer, Sarah . "Verbal Abuse Breaks Children." n. page. Web. 16 Nov 2010. <http://www.divinecaroline.com/22111/42148-verbal-abuse-breaks-children>.