Young students are subjected to various forms of bullying and unfair treatment in their school days. However, for a 12-year boy called Brody Ridder, the older students of his school did the needful to uplift his sagging spirits by signing his yearbook. The sixth-grader is from Westminster, Colorado. When his mother checked his yearbook, she ...
It is sad but true that our society has come to accept certain types of toxic behaviors as normal. Such toxic behaviors should not have any place in a civilized society, yet the truth is a majority of people, including the well-educated lot, just do not raise their voices against such acts. As a result, ...
The majority of us may be familiar with the following saying: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” However, negative words embed themselves in young minds. Am I right? Do you resonate? What does this saying mean for you? Previous studies have found increased anxiety levels in children associated with ...
It is not uncommon for parents to come across incidents of bullying targeting their kids in schools. In most such instances, either the parents deal with the classmates bullying their child face to face or approach the school authorities for intervention. A majority of parents get angry when they find out their kids are being ...
Screening and early interventions to address loneliness, sleep disturbances, and alcohol consumption can help to reduce the association between bullying at school and suicidal behaviors, a new study has found. Researchers from The University of Queensland’s Life Course Centre examined the relationship between bullying victimization and suicidal behaviors in more than 280,000 teenagers aged 13-17 in ...
Hope springs eternal, as the saying goes. It was such hope that brought sunshine back into the life of Kon Karapanagiotidis. Bullying of children did not just arrive on the scene with the digital age. It is ages old. Kon was the victim of merciless bullying as a child and at school. He shares how ...
In January this year, an incident of school bullying shocked China. An 8-year-old girl from northwestern Gansu Province was physically harassed and violated with a broomstick by her classmates. Chinese social media was in an uproar following the brutal incident. Playwright Yang Zhefen’s latest creation Fade Away is a stark reminder of the deep culture ...
A tale from the book Stories About Famous Women of Ancient China shows the wisdom of a country woman more than two millenniums ago. After a collision with another vehicle, how does one properly and effectively resolve the matter? Should people handle it with confrontation? Or should they settle things with sensible reasoning? One year, Duke Ji ...
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