One of my favorite things is to enjoy a cup of coffee as I watch “drop off” time at the elementary school across the street from my house. Every day since this school year has begun has included at least…
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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…
Due to the passing of my BELOVED mother-in-law, Mary Lee, I haven’t been able to keep up with the Tangled Ball blog for the past few days. But today, I have two experts to discuss. One was 11 in 1935…
OK, so Tangled Ball had a different expert in mind to feature today…but he IS the President…and it’s very important that he added his voice to this subject. I hope that ALL kids feeling relentlessly “put down” and suffering will…
Ellen DeGeneres and Anderson Cooper definitely deserve a Tangled Ball Award. Tangled Ball is all about engaging more people in this dialogue, raising awareness and inspiring folks to actively do what they can to blunt the long tail of pain…
As a counselor in Saskathewan, Canada for ten years, Kelly Karius developed a specialty in conflict resolution. The issue of bullying just kept surfacing and resurfacing until she decided to really take a stand. 24 Bully Stake Out is such…
The Bully Project will be featured on tonight’s 20/20 on ABC at 9/8C. Award-winning director Lee Hirsch and co-producer Cynthia Lowen were featured in a Tangled Ball Award post at the beginning of the month. I think the Long family…
How does Dr. Michele Borba do it all? She’s an award-winning author of 23 parenting books, including The Big Book of Parenting Solutions, international speaker, educational consultant, parenting expert as well as a child and adolescent expert and a regular…
Brooks Gibbs spends his time talking directly to teens about love, kindness, and compassion. Yep. Even though Brooks is a young guy, he dares to go there. The “there” is the old-fashioned notion that everyone should be respected, anger is…