October is National Bullying Prevention Month
Good Morning! Here’s the Monday Morning Blog!
Have you checked in with that teen in your life yet?
Our two young adult sons took on the adult role of and taking the docks out at our cabin without Jim or I going along. Passing the torch of an annual project. Becoming adults with responsibilities.
October is National Bullying Prevention Month
This is a campaign founded in 2006 by PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center. Originally a weeklong event, it was expanded to a month to help people across the nation and around the world unite with the powerful message that bullying should not be a part of childhood. Here is a link to their website National Bullying Prevention Center
Today is also
World Day of Bullying Prevention™ An initiative of STOMP Out Bullying™
It occurs the first Monday of every October. On this day students, schools. And communities all over the world go BLUE together against bullying and cyberbullying. It is the kickoff to National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month every October. Here is a link to their website World Day of Bullying Prevention™ An initiative of STOMP Out Bullying™
What Can You Do?
There are many initiatives and programs out there to help build awareness for this issue. By getting involved, you can help the teens in your school and in your community.
What can you personally do to prevent it? It may take you to change how you look at people.
People are just like you. They get up in the morning, they eat, they take the bus, they go to school, they play sports or video games. They may look different. Maybe they have glasses and you don’t. Or they have acne and you don’t. Maybe they are white and you are black. This is no reason to make fun of them.
We must treat people they way we want to be treated. Would you want someone to tease you because you are wearing a red jacket instead of a black one? Sometimes that is the reason why teens become the target of a bully.
Shawn’s Way
My second book, Shawn’s Way, due to publish in November, focuses on the teen challenge of bullying.
It is the story about a freshman at Mulston High School, Shawn Townson and how he becomes a target of a bully, just for being someone’s younger brother.
It is Book 2 of The Way Series and a sequel to my first book, The Hard Way. To find out more information about it, check out the books tab of my website.
Have a great week!
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