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19-year-old biggest victims of online bullying: Study

19-year-old biggest victims of online bullying: Study

March 17, 2013

London: Nineteen-year-old are the biggest victims of online bullying, the majority of which takes place on popular social networking site Facebook, a new UK study has claimed. After Facebook, Twitter was the next most frequent face for bullying – or trolling – to take place, according to the study of more than 2,000 teenagers by [...]

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Adults face bullying in schools

Adults face bullying in schools

March 15, 2013

Manitoba’s efforts to stamp out bullying in schools are overshadowing another troubling and emerging issue in the education system — adults bullying adults. Within parent councils and in exchanges between parents and teachers and administrators and parents, people in the education system are noting an increasing level of hostility — and bullying. “I just think [...]

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Education Minister Nancy Allen announces support for parents to deal with bullying. (Ryan Hicks/CBC)

Manitoba injects more funds into combating bullies

March 14, 2013

Parents worried about bullies in their child’s school are getting extra help from the Manitoba government on how to identify the signs and how to talk to their kids about it. Education Minister Nancy Allan announced Thursday that more money is being put into Safe Schools Manitoba, a program that offers workshops and resources for [...]

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Know their characteristics and personalities,’ says Marpole Soccer Club technical director Dino Anastopulos. ‘You have to know the characteristics of them not only as footballers, as players — but as people.’ Photograph by: Ward Perrin Ward Perrin , PROVINCE

Sports Academy: On the field or online, bullying isn’t tolerated

March 13, 2013

Youth sports can be an environment ripe for bullying. “Some kids literally try to intimidate other kids because there’s such high pressure to make the team, to be first string,” said Craig Sigle, a Seattle-based youth sports mental toughness trainer. “They learn they can out-compete somebody else if they can destroy another kid’s confidence.” Sigle [...]

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Bullying dissuades teen from attending graduation

Bullying dissuades teen from attending graduation

March 12, 2013

Anti-bullying day was Feb. 27 and with all the press highlighting what schools are doing to deal with the problem, I can’t help but write in. My 17-year-old daughter has been relentlessly bullied by a group of kids at her school and literally nothing has been done. Despite embarrassing pictures posted on Instagram, verbal threats [...]

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Emily Bazelon, author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. (Fernando Morales/The Globe and Mail)

The 6 biggest myths about bullying that parents and teachers should know

March 11, 2013

When Emily Bazelon’s friends exiled her in Grade 8, the 13-year-old found solace in another bully victim, Allie. The girls had long phone-therapy sessions and sleepovers. Still, on the day when a boy divulged to their packed cafeteria that Allie had stained her jeans with menstrual blood, Bazelon stood silently by as her best friend [...]

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Sturgeon Heights Collegiate’s Lauren Slegers, left, and Michael Rushinka (JOE BRYKSA/ WINNIPEG FREE PRESS)

Letting bullied kids be heard

March 08, 2013

Bullied kids — prepare yourselves to get seriously surveyed about bullying in our schools. Diametrically opposed as they may be over anti-bullying Bill 18, Education Minister Nancy Allan and Conservative Leader Brian Pallister both announced on Thursday they will conduct extensive online student surveys on bullying. The government’s Tell Them From Me bullying survey will [...]

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Students walk past South Secondary School, where 8 students were charged in a bullying case in London, Ont., on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. (Dave Chidley / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

How to talk to your kids about bullying

March 07, 2013

Has your child come home and talked to you about Anti-Bullying Day activities earlier this month? If yes, then this would provide a great opportunity for parents to ask their children about what their exposure has been to bullying, what they think about it as well as how they feel about it and their reactions [...]

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Ten Things You Missed at the Harvard Forum on Bullying

Ten Things You Missed at the Harvard Forum on Bullying

March 06, 2013

On Monday evening Emily Bazelon, author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy, spoke to a packed auditorium at the Harvard School of Education. Here’s what you missed: 1. Bullying, defined: According to Bazelon, bullying is harassment that repeats over time and involves a power imbalance. It’s [...]

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Growing push to halt workplace bullying

Growing push to halt workplace bullying

March 01, 2013

WASHINGTON — Margaret Fiester is no shrinking violet, but she says working for her former boss was a nightmare. “One day I didn’t do something right and she actually laid her hands on me and got up in my face and started yelling, ‘Why did you do that?’” said Fiester, who worked as a legal [...]

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On Pink Shirt Day, Edmonton teen reflects on being bullied and bullying others

On Pink Shirt Day, Edmonton teen reflects on being bullied and bullying others

February 28, 2013

Fourteen-year-old Tannan is a victim of bullying. Tannan says she was bullied as a child and remembers being picked on in Grade 1. “They looked at me as if I did something wrong,” Tannan said. “They could call me mean names and would tell me how I’m not really important and that I don’t belong [...]

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Radio Interview with Travis Price Founder of Pink Shirt Day

Radio Interview with Travis Price Founder of Pink Shirt Day

February 27, 2013

Today on Pink Shirt Day, CKNW radio in Vancouver was fortunate enough to interview Travis Price, one of the two Nova Scotia high school students who in 2007 went from being bystanders to champions of those who are bullied. Travis shares the origins of Pink Shirt Day and why he decided to stand up for the Grade 9 student [...]

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