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How to talk to your kids about bullying

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...

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Letting bullied kids be heard

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...

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

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...

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Bullying dissuades teen from attending graduation

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...

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

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...

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Manitoba injects more funds into combating bullies

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...

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Adults face bullying in schools

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...

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

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...

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Gay teen holds the line for Manitoba bullying bill

This was never meant to become a battle, and Evan Wiens didn’t expect to find himself in the thick of it. Instead, it all began as routine: Manitoba’s government, spurred by the high-profile suicide of...

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3 Ways to Smack Down a Grown-Up Bully

When we think of bullying, usually kids on a playground or teens using social media platforms come to mind, not adult neighbors or coworkers in a conference room. However, the young bullies of...

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EDITORIAL: Bullying of rape victim exposes big problem in Torrington schools

We hope and trust that the posture of denial and defensiveness Torrington school officials have taken toward the idea that there is a culture of abuse and harassment emanating from the high school...

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AZ student burned by bullies, beaten for tattling

An Apache Junction middle school student could have permanent scars after he says his own classmates burned him on the bus. His mother is worried about the emotional scars and is demanding the school...

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What is a bully? Pageant winner shares her personal story on school tour

Bullies are most-often thought of in a physical sense, a person who pushes others around and uses his or her size advantage to strike fear into others. That kind of bullying continues today, and is...

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The idea that bullying causes lasting harm gains credence

In my view, the term “bullying” risks understating the severity of the offense, like calling someone a “troll” often soft-pedals the gravity of making sexist, racist and gratuitously incendiary online...

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Why you must stop bullying to avoid long term harm – to the bully and the victim

If you ever needed to be convinced of the harm bullying can do here’s the proof. A new study has shown that being bullied can scar a child for life. I find the idea of a child being victimised,...

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Bullying becomes profitable topic for publishers

Nobody likes a bully — but these days the book industry loves having them to kick around. Publishing houses are flooding the market with titles that tackle bullying. The books are aimed at all age...

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Iowa teen sues school over bullying

A teenager in Iowa has sued school officials, who he says failed to protect him from severe bullying, which included an attack that left him disabled. The teen said that two students approached him in...

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Cyber-bullying out of control in Peel, say police

Cyber-bullying is getting out of hand in Mississauga and Brampton, and young teens could be charged if they post and send messages without thinking about the consequences, Peel Regional Police said...

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Bullying and borderline personality disorder: a missing link

Children abused by adults are known to be at increased risk of developing the serious and persistent mental illness known as borderline personality-disorder (BPD). New research suggests that bullying...

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Cyber-bullying 613-style gets shut down

OTTAWA — The way high school kids are bullying each other these days makes Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls” trite in comparison. An Instagram page slandering teen girls in the capital has been shut down...

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