Dear Elementary PTA President (a.k.a. Superhero in Mom Jeans – or Dad Sneakers), Schools wouldn’t be a community without you and we need strong communities to help raise resilient, happy kids. Thank you for stepping up. Without your efforts to…
By the second week of September, an entire nation of students will have started the 2018-2019 school year. I fondly call this Be Nice to the New Kid Month. There are many studies on the positive effects of kindness. It’s…
Child abuse is the worst form of bullying. Each one of us has the power to be the Go-To Adult. To me, the biggest concern is kids suffering in silence. How do we get them to talk to a “trusted adult.”…
I was writing about this Beat Bullying You Tube video from the UK and then I heard about the shooting in Ohio. Can we fathom the pain that some kids are going through? It’s a terrible question, but for every…
This week’s Boston Globe article, “Inside the Bullied Brain” is riveting. Although many people don’t consider bullying dangerous and are of the opinion that it’s actually a normal part of childhood or a “right of passage,” this article comes to…