I taught several years as a middle school Spanish teacher before I became a full time stay at home mom. So when someone was talking to me about the trials and tribulations their 7th grade child was having, it reminded me how tough those years really are.

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I taught several years as a middle school Spanish teacher before I became a full time stay at home mom. So when someone was talking to me about the trials and tribulations their 7th grade child was having, it reminded me how tough those years really are.

http://breezysmommy.blogspot.com/2013/01/why-middle-school-is-hell-on-earth-from.html

There are so many…

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If you’ve been with us for some time, you may remember when I had a ‘blog hater’ (aka. bully) a long while back.  She was like a stray cat to me.  If I fed her, she’d come back the next day.  Long story short, I didn’t feed her and wouldn’t post her nonsense.  She left… moved onto the next victim.  Its been a long while since I’ve had someone new come along that felt the need to call names, degrade and write inappropriate things… Bullies come and go though; we all know that.  It’s…

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By Rosemary Lichtman, Ph.D. and Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D.

 

Remember what it was like to be in school, afraid of the big bully in the neighborhood? The documentary Bully reignited the national dialogue about this challenge for kids, following several students and their families over the course of one school year.

 

Bullying is pervasive in our society today – research indicates that one in three children have been…

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Guest Blogger Mikayla Sez: "Bullying Really Scares Me"



Bullying Really Scares Me



by Mikayla T., age 13



Bullying has to stop. It seems to start when you are a tween and then gets really bad when you are in middle school. In middle school, bullies call people names, push them around and push kids into lockers. I think bullying happens because people don’t understand why other people are different.

When you get to middle school, you start to talk more and not… Continue

When I dropped Sandor, my 8 year old son, off this morning he ran  to the playground, overwhelmed by his backpack. He never hesitated or even looked back at me. Instead he happily threw himself into the ocean of kids.

With stunning clarity, I remember the year Mary hated that ocean of kids.She would get out of the car soooo slowly, look at me, pleading with her eyes that I wouldn't make her go to…

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You also need to understand that A LOT is being done in order to speak out against bullying. I have been an elementary educator for nearly 20 years. The majority of my years have been in third-fourth grades, the years when you will actually see some 'teasing' start to take place. Of… Continue

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If there's one thing that can cause inst-o-matic tears for me it's learning that someone is being bullied. It's an experience that is difficult to forget. I remember getting on the bus & my bully had told everyone to move to the edge of their seats, forcing me to have to stand up. Another time, my bully got all… Continue