This was sent to me shortly after I posted the article about the Mom who wanted to serve detention in her child’s place. (She felt that missing extra-curricular activities would be damaging.) Enjoy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C5Rnb7J3sU]
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Bully-be-gone!
This has got to be one of my favorite back-to-school stories… and best ever bullying story. Like all parents, I am concerned about bullying. I am also concerned that many of the ways that we encourage kids to deal with bullying are at best ineffective – and at worst set them up for even more torment. That is what’s so great about this story – instead of making the victim responsible for ‘fixing’ the problem the majority of the student community stood up together and said…
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Daylight Spending Time?
This summer sure has made me feel like a little kid. First of all, it took forever to get here. It wasn’t the end of school we were waiting for, instead we had to bide our time and wonder just when Mother Nature would start to cooperate and stop raining on us all! Until that occurred, it just didn’t seem like summer, no matter what the calendar said! Now that we are experiencing glorious New England summer days, I find myself thinking about ‘summer things.’ I’m…