Don’t Be A Bully Month

Bullying today is no longer limited to verbal and physical actions. Text and online bullying has become a serious problem among adolescents and teens. Almost 9 out of 10 teens have a cell phone and about 1 in 5 will be victims of a text bully. About 1 in 10 teens...

Baffle That Bully Book Review

Baffle That Bully is a quick read that will provide parents and young children the opportunity to discuss bullying and work on a strategy for deflecting it. The book is written for elementary school children by providing examples they can relate to giving the book...

Back to School: Lunchroom Bullying

  Schools will be open soon and although we know bullies didn’t take the summer off, the cafeteria bullies have had a summer break. Lunchroom bullying like schoolyard bullying are hotspots in schools. We haven’t heard a lot about food allergy...

Back to School: Be An Upstander and Show Your Support

  Within the next few weeks schools across the country will be opening their doors. Parents are already purchasing school supplies their child will need.  Some parents with teens leaving for college are preparing for their empty nest ~ travel plans and the extra...

Parents Can Tweet Too: Being a Social Media Role Model

It used to be the case that parents just puzzled over their teens’ calculus homework; now parents have the added challenge of hashtags and embed codes. That’s because parents must become role models online as well as offline, since the separation between those worlds...