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Sunday
Aug122012

Stop the Bullying (It Could Be Your Child & Lives Are Being Lost)

I can’t stress enough or how important it is to stop bullying. It has been going on forever but it is now taking a turn where teenagers are taking their lives over this. Our government thinks it is more important to regulate how much soda we are drinking or how new mothers should breast feed their new born babies trying to take the choice from the beaming new mothers. Kids can be brutal in torturing kids and children follow instead of knowing its wrong and not to be a part of it. I know I was not brought up like this and picking on another never crossed my mind. I hate to say it but it comes from the upbringing and if you don’t know if your child may be a part of this activity, you need to take time to really find out. It would be a horrible thing to carry on your mind that your child might be the cause of another child taking their life.

From when I was in school teachers had their favorite students or teachers pets. This is teaching children it is okay to treat one child one way and another child differently. It flows over into the kids and it can last a childhood for some children. It seems this is a fad now and needs to be addressed and taken seriously. We need to be more active in our children’s lives. It is hard enough keeping up with the Jones with people income and not be able to have the finest or the most expensive as wear or gear as others. To not be as skinny or as pretty as we think we should be. Instead of being put down children need to be encouraged.

I know that I had two years that were not very fun. My nick name was BJ and we all know what that stands for. I also had braces and back then they weren’t so fun. My mother would always say, “You will be beautiful one day. You are a late bloomer and you’ll see in time”. Boy was my mom right. I grew into me, who I am today but the great thing that I can say I love about myself is I take pride in my inside knowing I am a kind loving person. I can say I feel it is more important to be beautiful on the inside as it is to be beautiful on the outside.

So in closing we need to take a stand. I remember when my daughter was in grade school I would protect the kids that were getting picked on. I would say to the kid doing the picking “you’re bigger than him but there will always be someone bigger than you, and if I see you picking on them again, there is always me”. I know, I know….but I can’t help myself sometimes. So we need to get active in our community and your child’s life. We need to see if they are getting picked on, or doing the picking and we need to put a stop to it. We need to save these children lives so they can live to see what the will be as adults. And we need to remember we are the adults. Barbara Jeanne xo

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