As a mom who has had a child that was bullied I am all for Antibullying day! Any awareness can only help. The boys were excited to wear their pink shirts and they are aware that their sister was bullied and know that it is not right. Last year I would receive a phone call every day around 10:30am....mom I have a headache, mom my stomach hurts, then it progressed to evening/night time meltdowns, not wanting to go to school. Thing is, my daughter is one of the confident ones, yet she was still a victim of bullying and it was a child in her class that has been to her birthday parties! The last straw was when an older student that knew Jaden found her in a stairwell crying.....sobbing. She had the sense to take Jade to the principal. I then had a meeting with her teacher where I told her that we had contemplated removing Jade from the school, the teacher then had a meeting with the other child's mother and there has not been a problem since. It made for a miserable year! This year she is a completely different child, she is having a great school year and it is now March and I have not received one "not feeling well" phone call. I sometimes think that I waited too long to step in..I tried to play it down, tell Jaden that maybe she was making too much out of some of the things that this girl was doing. Thing is the "little" bullying tactics wore her down....the hurtful words, intimidating gestures and the constant attempts to exclude her from those all important little friendship groups that form out on the playground...they became too much. Too many times she ate her lunch by herself, the feelings of not belonging consumed her....too much for a 10 year old. My hope is that she will never be one of those people, yes she may inadvertently hurt someones feelings but I hope that she will always be aware of how words can affect someone.
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Great post
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