Help Heal Bullying — Start at Home
As a mother, I am always seeking new ways to encourage my family in this busy world. I discovered that two of my children were being bullied, though they told me they were “fine.” Research shows that over 60 percent of kids who experience bullying never confide in anyone. Where do we start to gain our children’s trust to confide in us when they experience challenges in their lives?
I want this to change for all families, whether their child is the target of bullying, the bully or the bystander who fails to speak up. When I speak to parents and kids around the country, we talk about how sometimes a cry for love is buried within the bully’s actions. My son had an incident with a teen who had sprayed a toxic spray into his face. At the exact moment that I was speaking to the principal about this incident, the teen who had sprayed my son was on the football field under the bleachers crying because a group of boys were taunting and teasing him. I later...