Celebrities STOMP Out Bullying With Love Our Children USA

Love Our Children USA appear that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proclaiming October 5th BLUE SHIRT DAY to announce the accent of National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week, October 4th – 10th.

Love Our Children USA created National Blue Shirt Day on Monday, October 5th, area bags of kids and adults will abrasion abject shirts as they accomplish their way to academy or to the appointment as a grassroots civic movement to STOMP Out Bullying.

The alignment launched the STOMP Out Bullying Campaign in October, 2008 and its new committed Web Site this accomplished Monday. STOMP Out Bullying focuses its efforts to abate Bullying and Cyberbullying, abatement academy absence and truancy, brainwash adjoin homophobia and racism and avert abandon in schools, playgrounds and communities above the country. To date over 53,000 accept committed to STOMP Out Bullying on the site.

It’s not just politicians who abutment STOMP Out Bullying an action of Love Our Children USA, but celebrities are out in abounding force to help.

Teen Celebrities Demi Lovato, JoJo and the latest children’s awareness The Oogieloves participate in the accessible account attack which includes TV spots, videos, posters, brochures and wristbands. Additional celebrities such as Brittany Snow, Naturally 7 and others are slated to accompany the advancing attack created by the Geppetto Group.

In adjustment to accession funds for blowing and cyberbullying prevention, apprenticeship and associate mentoring in schools, Love Our Children USA is captivation its Second Annual Celebrity STOMP Out Bullying Auction on CharityFolks from October 5th –16th.

This year’s celebrity contributors include: Elton John, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, Ellen Degeneres, Phil Collins, Demi Lovato, Kelly Clarkson, Daughtry, Bryan Adams, Metallica, Guster, Dancing With The Stars, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Bye Bye Birdie, Rock Of Ages, the NJ Nets and more.

“Kids who are intimidated, threatened, or afflicted by bullies generally acquaintance low self-esteem and depression, admitting those accomplishing the blowing may go on to appoint in added austere alienated behaviors. Some kids are so traumatized by accepting bullied, that they contemplate suicide. Bullies generally accept been the victims of blowing or added abusage themselves” said Ross Ellis, Love Our Children USA Founder and Chief Executive Officer. This campaign’s key purpose is to brainwash those kids who are accepting afraid and those who are bullying, that there are choices for them to get help.

Bullying can be so aching and acutely has played a role in academy shootings above the country. While boys are added physical, girls use weapons, exclusion, slander, rumors and gossip.

And cyberbullying is on the rise. This amusing online animality is acclimated in the forms of e-mail, corpuscle phone; pager argument messages, burning messaging, abusive claimed Web sites, and abusive online claimed polling Web sites, deliberate, repeated, and adverse behavior, and is acclimated by an alone or accumulation -- advised to abuse others – abnormally amidst our youth. While a lot of kids use the Internet for affable interactions, added and added kids are application these advice accoutrement to antagonize, alarm and alarm others.

Add that to the hazing traveling on in top schools and the kids who accompany accoutrements to academy and our kids are in even added crisis of affecting and concrete harm.

Bullying Statistics
• 1 out of 4 kids is Bullied.
• 1 out of 5 kids admits to accepting a bully, or accomplishing some "Bullying."
• 282,000 acceptance are physically attacked in accessory schools anniversary month.
• More adolescence abandon occurs on academy area as against to on the way to school.
• 1/3 of acceptance surveyed said they heard addition apprentice abuse to annihilate someone.
• As abounding as 160,000 acceptance may break home on any accustomed day because they're abashed of their bullies due to the affliction of bullying.

Cyberbullying Statistics
• 42% of kids accept been afraid while online. 1 in 4 accept had it appear added than once.
• 35% of kids accept been threatened online. Nearly 1 in 5 accept had it appear added than once.
• 21% of kids accept accustomed beggarly or aggressive e-mail or added messages.
• 58% of kids accept anyone has said beggarly or aching things to them online.

Hazing Statistics
• 1.5 actor top academy acceptance are hazed anniversary year
• 91% of all H.S. acceptance accord to at atomic one group, and bisected of them, 48% address accepting subjected to hazing activities.
• 43% were subjected to base activities and 30% performed potentially actionable acts as allotment of their initiation

All of this has anybody worried. Not just the kids on its accepting end, but the parents, agents and others who may not accept how acute blowing can get. Love Our Children USA is alive aggressively to anticipate these issues and to advice the kids and adolescence afflicted by it.

Ellis said “STOMP Out Bullying brings acquaintance and educates kids, parents and schools about the issue. It offers achievement for every kid who adventures the adverse accoutrement of blowing and teaches parents to accumulate accessible advice with their accouchement and to attending for signs. It aswell educates academy administrators above the country, who accept swept this affair beneath the rug for too long.”

She aswell added, “Bullying is a anatomy of adolescent bribery and bullies are actual acceptable to abound up as adults who bribery children. By educating our children, we can stop the blowing BEFORE it anytime starts. We are beholden to the ball industry and with their advice we can accumulate kids safe above the country.”

More advice about blowing and how to advice your accouchement and acceptance can be begin at www.loveourchildrenusa.org and www.stompoutbullying.org

About Love Our Children USA
Love Our Children USA is the civic nonprofit baton that honors, respects and protects children. Its mission is to breach the aeon of abandon adjoin children. Love Our Children USA has become ‘the go-to’ blockage alignment for all forms of abandon and carelessness adjoin accouchement in the U.S. Working to annihilate behaviors that accumulate accouchement from extensive their potential, it redefines parenting and creates kid success by announcement blockage strategies and absolute changes in parenting and ancestors attitudes and behaviors through accessible education. Empowering and acknowledging children, teens, parents and families through information, resources, advocacy, and online adolescence mentoring. Its bulletin is absolute ...one of prevention, empowerment and hope. Since 1999, Love Our Children USA has paved the way in the blockage of abandon and carelessness adjoin accouchement … befitting accouchement safe and deepening families.

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