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Tuesday, 15 December 2009 10:12 |
Cyber bullying is in the increase, says Vancouver Sun Article Dec. 14, 2009. We’ve known this for a long time. The booklet entitled, “Take Action Against Cyber Bullying” is a soft bound book, meaning that pages can be changed and updated every year because the statistics update so often. We, as a world nation, particularly in the field of public education, are in the middle of the biggest transition for accessing information than ever before seen. The cyber world is in its infancy, and like all mushroom clouds just blooming, we cannot know the final and far-reaching consequences.
However, this is what we do know for sure |
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 19:16 |
The Bully Was Left Naked and Bleeding: Revenge may be sweet, but does anyone really win??
Recently, an article entitled Vancouver teens face charges after bully beaten, hit with stun gun (Canwest News Service Published: Friday, November 06, 2009) describes a scene where 4 youths were arrested in connection with a beating of an alleged bully. The anonymous caller reported that a bully was stripped of his clothes, lying in a fetal position on the ground, bleeding, surrounded by the perpetrators. |
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Monday, 30 November 2009 16:54 |
Fanny raises some interesting questions about what parents and kids can do when they are approached by a bully. Although our conversation took place in September right as the school year kicked off, I’m not sure that the point was well made that parents always need to be vigilant about their child’s well being in school.
As a school-age student, I never remember my parents asking me if I spent my lunch hour with friends or by myself, but I know that my sister and I would have had different answers to that question. I also know that I ask my own children about how they spend their free time at school, who they spend it with and if they have a circle of friends to hang out with. School is a very lonely place when you have no one to be with. And being alone can also make a child a convenient target. |
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Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:00 |
Two events have inspired this blog. First, the recent article in the NY Times on preschool age bullying, and second, the Keynote address I am doing at the Children of the Heart Matter conference in February 2010 for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and early school age children.
Can little children be bullies? The answer is YES!! Regardless of the age of the children around us, we still need to have expectations of socially acceptable behaviour. The Bully Beware newsletter this month addresses this issue more closely, and it is clear that we cannot dismiss violent, aggressive and otherwise inappropriate behaviours in children simply because they are young. Bullying is a learned behaviour. And children don’t often just grow out of it. If a young child is repeatedly using violent, exclusive, mean spirited and intentionally mean behaviours to get what s/he wants, or to limit the social experience s of others, that child needs to be held accountable for those behaviours. The single most influential experience in a young child’s home environment. For very young children, home counts for everything. |
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