I was reading New Beginnings by Rebecca Emin when I was approached to read\/review another book that dealt with childhood bullying. I agreed and started reading it today. I’ll post my review here when I’m finished. Bullying is as old as man and will continue to plague our lives unless we collectively take a stand to stop it.<\/p>\n
So without any further preamble from me, I turn my blog over to Jackson Keene author of the debut\u00a0YA novel, NOLICHUCK.<\/p>\n
GUEST POST by Jackson Keene, Author of Debut YA novel NOLICHUCK<\/strong><\/p>\n (NOTE:\u00a0 TJ, our young hero of NOLICHUCK<\/strong>, endures constant bullying at school.\u00a0 He even has problems with ruffians when he travels back in time to the wild frontier days.\u00a0 His story of ultimately overcoming and gaining real confidence is very relevant for youth today who suffer harassment from mean classmates.<\/em>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Are you faced with bullying at school or know students who are?\u00a0 Ways to deal with bullies.<\/span><\/p>\n Bullying in schools has seemingly reached epidemic proportions today.\u00a0 This appears especially true in elementary school, middle school, junior high school levels, and even up through senior high.\u00a0 And it’s not just the boys who are tormenting their classmates.\u00a0 Girls often are crueler and much more devious than the boys.<\/p>\n Bullying can take many forms.\u00a0 It can be verbal such as taunting, teasing that goes way beyond mere kidding around, false accusations, vicious rumors, ugly slurs, constant unkind statements, making fun of someone’s appearance or intelligence or lack of material things.\u00a0 It can be emotional such as constantly and publicly humiliating someone, continuously excluding someone from becoming part of an accepted group or popular crowd, derogating someone’s manhood or womanhood.\u00a0 And it can be physical, including hitting, punching, slapping, kneeing a boy in his private area, shoving, tripping, choking, in the case of girls, pulling hair, yanking on clothes, spitting, biting, kicking, etc.<\/p>\n Whatever form bullying takes and wherever it occurs, bullying kids at school is intolerable behavior.\u00a0 Unnecessary and unprovoked unkindness is always wrong, no matter what the excuse.<\/p>\n But there are ways students can help protect themselves and deflect bullying actions.<\/p>\n \u00a0So if you know someone or someone’s child(ren)\u00a0who is being bullied, or suspect they are, please share this post with them. It could make all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was reading New Beginnings by Rebecca Emin when I was approached to read\/review another book that dealt with childhood bullying. I agreed and started reading it today. I’ll post my review here when I’m finished. Bullying is as old as man and will continue to plague our lives unless we collectively take a stand … Continue reading Bullying…<\/span> \n