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What I’m Reading Wednesday – Revisiting KINDNESS WINS
October is National Bullying Awareness Month, and one way to help combat bullying is to teach kindness. With that in mind, I’m re-sharing my review of Galit Breen’s Kindness Wins from 2015. It’s a truly wonderful tool in your parenting arsenal, and heaven knows there’s not a parent alive that can’t benefit from a great tool. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links that may earn me a commission if you purchase through them. I purchased a copy of Kindness Wins with my own money. All opinions found here are mine alone. If you are reading this, it’s obvious you are plugged in and living online. Internet, email, social media –…
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Must-Read MG Book: Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee
My daughter came home from school one day, slamming her backpack on the kitchen table in frustration. “They go ON AND ON about bullying at school, but they never tell people how to deal with it. They need to move past the “don’t bully” crap, because kids do it anyway, and teach us how to deal with it. And THEN they need to start talking about how to deal with sexual harassment, too.” Just what you want to hear on a sunny Thursday afternoon. So it was serendipitous that earlier in the day, an email landed in my inbox with a request for me to review Maybe He Just Likes…
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On Bullying: the Ultimate Solution
I confess that what I’ve written today was not what I sat down to write. See, I sat down to write a funny story about this one time I went swimsuit shopping. But I can’t write it. Not today. My heart is full of sadness, anger, disappointment and frustration. Since the start of the year there have been three suicides in our metro area. Three teens, no longer on this earth. Three teens so pained that the only escape they thought they could find was to end their lives. I didn’t know these three boys. I can’t imagine the torment they faced to get them to the decision that they…
