bullying | bullying
Apr.25.2013
Today I had to take a break from enthusing about The Souls of Her Feet to put the final edits on The Bullying Antidote, which comes out in July (Hazelden). The Bullying Antidote (TBA) is a huge book, a compendium of the best current thought about this national health issue and what parents can...
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Feb.24.2013
Motivated by her concern after the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007, Kathryn Erskine wrote mockingbird (mok′ ing-bûrd) to examine how families cope after a sudden tragedy. Erksine’s first-person narrator is a ten-year-old girl with Asperger’s syndrome named Caitlin Ann Smith. Caitlin is...
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Feb.14.2013
On Wednesdays Phil Naessens Show Sports-Kings Andy Flint joins Phil to discuss Kobe Bryant chiding a Twitter follower for calling another follower gay, former Duke star and ESPN College Basketball analyst Jay Williams and his comments to the NY Times, trading Josh Smith...
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Jan.10.2013
I had this friend when I was a kidHe lived in a big houseAnd had a lot of toysHis dad drove a red convertibleAnd hand-loomed rugs in the basement
I didn’t see his mom there but she wasDidn’t see his parents much
One day he started to bully meThis went on for a few yearsHe got meaner and...
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Jan.10.2013
I don’t want my mom to call me a bitch anymore. Beneath my soul, you were all I really ever knew. I am not amused by regular humor. The ability to see through people, is surreal. I love that feeling of the growling when I’m starving. I can’t deny that I do...
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Dec.20.2012
The nation has reacted after the Sandy Hook Elementary School where children were killed by a young man walking around with a legal automatic weapon, procured from his mother's house.
I liked it better when I thought of towns called Newton and thought of Fig Newtons, named after Newton...
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Dec.15.2012
Some sources say that 1 out of 88 children is autistic. http://www.cdc.gov/features/countingautism/ Autism spectrum disorders include Rett Syndrome and Fragile X Syndrome caused by genetic mutations, classic autism (nonverbal and nonengaging) as well as "high functioning autism" (likely to be above...
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Oct.27.2012
In October, Sylvan Dell Publishing released the third paperback edition of How the Moon Regained Her Shape, my book about bullying. The book is also now out in a “Fun eReader” iPad App. Also, Publishers Weekly recommends How the Moon Regained Her Shape in an...
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Oct.26.2012
To any teenager reading this who is feeling bullied and harassed or thinks life doesn’t get better after high school — you’re wrong. It does. Because as you grow older, you also grow wiser. I know, I know, adults are stupid, but indulge this one a moment and let me whisper a few hard-earned words....
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Sep.19.2012
Youngjoo Ahn and Rachel Glass co-host the fourth episode in our Tough Talk Series in collaboration with Youth Voice in San Diego. Today’s subject is peer abuse, peer pressure, and teen bullying with 17 year old guest, Joseline Suarez, a peer educator for Gang Reduction,...
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