School Starts And So Does Bullying

Love Our Children USA appear today that blowing and affliction is at the top of kids’ issues at schools, and with academy set to accessible in soon, parents, agents and academy administrators have to crop attention and acuteness in administration these issues.

Childhood should be a time abounding with admiration and joy, but the absoluteness for abounding kids and adolescence is generally abundant different. They're the victims of blowing and cyber-bullying at academy or on adjacency playgrounds.

October 4 – 10th is National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week. To beam the week, Love Our Children USA will allege at assorted schools about bullying, cyberbullying and preventing it.

To announce the accent of the week, Love Our Children USA created National Blue Shirt Day. Specifically on Monday, October 5th, the alignment is allurement kids, adolescence and adults to participate in civic BLUE SHIRT DAY by cutting a abject shirt to STOMP Out Bullying.

They chose abject because in abounding assorted cultures abject brings peace. The blush conveys accent and confidence.
On Monday, October 5th, Americans above the country will abrasion abject shirts as they accomplish their way to academy or to the appointment as a grassroots civic attack to STOMP Out Bullying.

Participation is accepted from above cities and proclamations from arch politicians and borough leaders.
This day will be accurate with a civic media campaign.

Last October, the alignment created STOMP Out Bullying. To date over 48,000 humans accept committed to STOMP Out Bullying.

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.

Ross Ellis, Love Our Children USA Founder and Chief Executive Officer remembers alone too able-bodied what it is like to be bullied. Today it’s a approved accident in schools starting as aboriginal as kindergarten. It’s not a appropriate of access as some may think. It’s a crisis. And abounding kids accept committed suicide because the cheeky was so torturous.

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

And beware of cyberbullying which 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.

Ellis said “parents have to accumulate accessible advice with their children. Look for signs. And academy administrators can no best ambit the affair beneath the rug. Students should be accomplished about the adverse accoutrement of bullying. Many schools are across-the-board the affair beneath the rug. Every academy should acknowledge No Bullying Policy and accomplish it.”

Ross Ellis suggests that schools set up a web website area kids can anonymously address the being who is blowing them. That way victims can feel safe in authoritative the address and the academy can accord with the bully.

Recent Statistics Show:
• 1 out of 4 kids is Bullied.
• 1 out of 5 kids admits to accepting a bully, or accomplishing some "Bullying."
• 8% of acceptance absence 1 day of chic per ages for abhorrence of Bullies.
• 43% abhorrence aggravation in the bath at school.
• 100,000 acceptance backpack a gun to school.
• 28% of youths who backpack weapons accept witnessed abandon at home.
• A poll of adolescence ages 12-17 accepted that they anticipate abandon added at their schools.
• 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.
• 80% of the time, an altercation with a annoyer will end up in a concrete fight.
• 1/3 of acceptance surveyed said they heard addition apprentice abuse to annihilate someone.
• 1 out of 5 adolescence knows anyone who brings a gun to school.
• 2 out of 3 say they apperceive how to accomplish a bomb, or apperceive area to get the advice to do it.
• Almost bisected of all acceptance say they apperceive addition apprentice who's able of murder.
• Playground statistics - Every 7 account a adolescent is bullied. Adult action -4% Peer action - 11%. No action - 85%.

Ellis said “helping your accouchement cope with either accepting a annoyer or accepting a victim generally requires alfresco assistance, such as from your child's academy or the community. School is the a lot of acceptable abode for blowing to occur, so altercate your apropos with your child's agents and advisor and ask what they can do to help. School cadre can be affecting in allowance a adolescent adapt his behavior. Take advantage of any cerebral counseling casework that may be offered at your child's academy or in your community.”

Bullying is a anatomy of adolescent bribery and bullies are actual acceptable to abound up as an developed who abuses children.

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

About Love Our Children USA
Since 1999, Love Our Children USA has paved the way as 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. It works 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. It works to empower and abutment children, teens, parents and families through information, resources, advocacy, and online adolescence mentoring. Its ambition is to accumulate accouchement safe and strengthen families -- Its bulletin is absolute ... one of blockage and hope.

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