Bullying Prevention Starts at Home
Supportive parent involvement together with warm and affectionate parenting, are part of the scaffolding required in children’s lives to reduce the chances of them becoming a bully, a victim or both. Last month, researchers at the University of Warwick and Kingston University published findings from a large-scale analysis of research on bullying and victimisation of children and produced more evidence of the importance of parenting programs to bolster children’s wellbeing. Read full article
Sticks and Stones do Hurt - To This Day Video
This video is poetry, art, music - a performance piece powerfully demonstrating the lasting effects of bullying on a child. Take the time ... think what actions you can take ... to reduce bullying, to support children, and to just be there for the kids that need you. Read full article
Sticks and Stones do Hurt - To This Day Video
This video is poetry, art, music - a peformance piece powerfully demonstrating the lasting effects of bullying on a child. Take the time ... think what actions you can take ... to reduce bullying, to support children, and to just be there for the kids that need you. Read full article
What Makes Teenagers Stand Up for Bullying Victims?
To bully, 'bystand' or 'upstand'? This is the question that adolescents who witness bullying behaviour are processing at the time of an incident. New research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education discovers why teens at school don't always stand up for bullying victims, even though they want to. Read full article
Win 4 Tickets to a Play about Resilience, Tolerance and Understanding
Win one family pass for 4 people - 2 adults and 2 children - to the Wong Side of Life on 25th March 2013 at Chatswood's Concourse Theatre. Set in 2101 it combines comedy with drama and blends puppet characters with live actors to tell the story of young lovers, Lin Wong and Reece Hart, who are drawn together from widely divergent social and ethnic backgrounds. Read full article
You’re Only Ever as Happy as Your Unhappiest Child
Last year, my twelve year old son went through a tough time at school. It happened in grade six, his final year at the tiny local primary he’d attended ever since he started prep… attended, that is, until we pulled him out in grade five, when our family decided to spend a year living in the north of Australia. Up until this time Declan had loved school, and was close to pretty much all the nine other boys in his year level, with whom he’d always shared a class...When we left everything was perfect, but when we returned everything had changed. Read full article
Every Australian School Should Play This in Class - Bullying
Words not required to describe this extremely moving video. We dare you to watch it without being moved to tears, or at least rivetted to the spot. Australian singer Bec Cole's son made this video. " I thank him for letting me share this, his bravery will help others. So proud of my son.." Read full article
Understanding Children Who Bully
We are in the midst of an epidemic. One in seven kids suffer from it. It destroys lives and can have fatal consequences...As a community, there are things we can all do to decrease the likelihood that children will become bullies...Teens, although highly vulnerable to slights, are quick to dish them out. Testing each other and the world, their expressions are often uncensored... Read full article
We're Backing Back Me Up - Cyberbullying Must Stop
There's more to come on this, but we are backing the "Back Me Up" campaign from the Australian Human Rights Commission - focusing on the role of the bystander in cyberbullying. Teenagers are invited to enter a video competition and win fantastic prizes. Please share this video via social media with all the teens you know. Now, watch the video with Ruby Rose. Read full article
High School Students' Inspiring Anti Bullying Music Video
Students at Cypress Ranch High School in the United States appear to have used the entire school to make this music video with an anti bullying message - "Who Do U Think U R?" This is one to share on Facebook with your teens - the message works best when it comes from the people affected by it. This is definitely worth 5 minutes of your time - makes you smile and reminds you of the power and strengths of our teenagers. Read full article
