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Do Your Social Media Ads Appear to Support Bullying?

Target, Ticketmaster, and Four Seasons Hotels found their ads on a Facebook page constructed to bully Amanda Todd after her death, spotlighting the lack of control companies have over the content adjacent to their ads when they advertise on social media sites whose content is updated every few seconds. Here’s a story from The Globe …

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Teens Take Musical Action Against Bullying One Note At A Time

Teens write anti-bullying song, "Take A Stand"

Here’s a great example of teens working together to create change – using their unique musical talents to reduce bullying. Sacha Edwards, a 16 year old singer/songwriter (a finalist on Radio Disney’s “Next Big Thing”) teamed up with Parker Forbes, a 14 year old a multi-talented musician (bass, guitar and drums), to create “Take a …

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Take the Anti-Bullying Challenge!

Bullying Prevention Awareness Month is over for this year in the United States. There was an outpouring of articles, observances, interviews, videos and other means of distributing the anti-bullying message during the month of October. There was also coverage of several significant events, especially surrounding the suicide of Amanda Todd. There were many memorial vigils …

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Lorna Blumen Talks About Bullying

Lorna Blumen will be talking about bullying in these upcoming interviews on the air and in print media: New Living Magazine November issue, www.newliving.com/– “Bullying is a Pain in the Brain”  – how the brain changes when someone is bullied WVTL-FM Bob Cudmore show Wed, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:35 am EST (http://wvtlfm.com/on-air/bob-cudmore) – “Why Adults …

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Self-Respect: What Is It? (Infographic)

What underlies bullying? The lack of respect for self and others. How do we keep kids grounded in respect? First we need to know what respect for self looks like. When we respect ourselves, it’s much easier to respect others. Kids grounded in respect won’t bully others to get or maintain friendships and won’t stand …

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