Three Great Anti-Bullying Activities
Activity – Wrinkled Wanda – On chart paper, have the participants trace an outline of a full body person. (See below for an example) Once the outline has been traced, the participants will write unkind, rude, and disrespectful statements all over the outline. These...
read more10 Most Common Cyber Bullying Tactics
Cyber bullying is a term used to define recurrent and sustained verbal and/or physical attacks by one or more children towards another child who is unable or unwilling to deescalate the engagement using information and communication technology. Like classic bullying,...
read moreThe Internet Predator – iPredator
For proactive parents who plan to practice & institute Internet safety, I've compiled my quick checklist & tips to help ensure all your bases are covered. The list provided is a quick injection of internet safety awareness. I hope my checklist helps insulate...
read moreBitterness – Greed – Guilt – And Bullying
Bitterness The word is out. Bullying will not be tolerated. Schools, communities, and society have now drawn the line. Students will be disciplined in school for it, employees and employers will be held accountable for acts of harassment and intimidation, and...
read moreBullying Is Not Always About Weakness
Victims of Bullying get bullied for a variety of reasons. Weakness is only one of them. People are bullied today for difference now more than ever. We would like to think that prejudice is yesterdays news; unfortunately it's not. The narrow minded bully comes in all...
read moreTeaching Respect
Disrespect is really a symptom of a deeper problem going on within the mind of a child. Anger or guilt is at the root. Often teachers are not even aware that the child is angry but notice a change in their attitude, and are not sure where it is coming from. Rules and...
read moreExperiential Opinion
Opinion is opinion and we all have one. What forms these opinions is another story. Sometimes they are formed and almost appear to be judgment on a group or a method, or a habit or just an overall dislike for a person or an idea. These opinions are not based upon...
read moreLiberty And Freedom
Liberty and freedom: synonymous? I don’t think so. We all have the liberty to do and say whatever we want. Good or bad. Oh, of course with consequences both good and bad as well. What we do with that liberty determines the amount of freedom we experience in the deep...
read moreEmotional Maturity
Many years ago I had a friend whose son was getting ready to go off to his freshman year of college. We drove him up to Dartmouth. Her intention was to stay up there for three days to help him with the adjustment and get settled. During the five hour car ride there,...
read moreSELF-CONTROL, THERE IS “NUN” BETTER
Going to a Catholic grammar school for nine years had its benefits. We had to wear uniforms so there wasn’t any clothes competition. We went to church all the time so we got some formal spiritual training. You couldn’t even think of using profanity because you thought...
read moreSociety Has Lost It’s Wisdom
Parents need to teach their kids everything. There are no assumptions in this world; None. Society has lost it's focus and believes that children will learn about money, friendships, relationships, and marriage on their own. We are so caught up telling our kids what...
read moreThe First R Of Academic Success: Respect
I was driving in my car one day and was staring at the five bumper stickers that were on the car in front of me. One of the bumper stickers made a lot of sense, it said, “If you can read this thank a teacher.” I never had to be reminded of this when I was a kid, I...
read moreI Fight Authority And Authority Always Wins
As a young boy I always had a fear of authority. I don’t mean the police, I mean adults other than my parents. There was always some authority figure who was correcting me in the community or in school. Since my father was the owner of a pretty popular bar in a very...
read moreCan You Handle The Truth?
One of the things that I’ve noticed today in society is that everyone has a problem with the truth. I don’t mean we walk around lying all the time, but we are always afraid of hurting someone’s feelings or becoming entangled in some sort of confrontation with the...
read moreThe Bricks In The Wall
THE RELATIONSHIP CONNECTION Two teachers were talking in the hall sharing information about some of their more challenging students. “I don’t know,” said one teacher “I have tried everything with Tom and nothing works.” Behavior modification, extra gym time, phone...
read moreHow Does It Feel To Be Alone
Victims of bullying today spend a great deal of time alone. Oh, when they are in school they are around hundreds of other students but in the recesses of their own soul they live a life void of any real emotional contact with others. Fear of hurt keeps them from...
read moreThere Is Something Happening Here
What is happening here? Listen to the words. It's 1967. Anything different today? The inter generational tendency at work again. War, and protest. Bullying for sure. Not spoken of like today. Everyone was bullied back then. The end result for turning our back on it...
read moreMore Compromises
Illustration Five Obedience Has Become a Dirty word I first started talking about obedience about fifteen years ago. It was one of the three things that I believed needed to be developed in all children. The other two very important characteristics that I thought...
read moreCompromises That Have Led To The Bullying Epidemic
Forty Years of Small Compromises Change has a way of sneaking up on you. One morning you wake up and wonder how you gained weight, contracted heart disease, lost your job, or in the case of dealing with a child’s behavior, you wonder why he or she can’t hold a job,...
read moreThe Intergenerational Tendency
Like it or not we will all become in some way like our parents. As time has past I have come to realize this more and more in my own life. I have grown to have a deeper appreciation for my own parents over the years. My father has been dead for almost 35 years, but I...
read morePaul O’Neil Is A Bully
On April 4, 2011Bryan Stow a married father of two went to Dodger Stadium to enjoy the opening day of the baseball season with two of his friends. Unfortunately, Stow and his friends did anything but enjoy the game. They were taunted and threatened by two men during...
read moreSociety’s Morality Can’t Keep Up With Technology
A student is accused of posing as a girl on Facebook, tricking at least 31 male classmates into sending him naked photos of themselves and then blackmailing some for sex acts. Anthony Stancl, 18, of New Berlin, west of Milwaukee, was charged with five counts of child...
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