What Your Middle Schooler Needs to Know
Being new to middle school can be both scary and exciting for kids (and moms). Kids may learn a new…
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Being new to middle school can be both scary and exciting for kids (and moms). Kids may learn a new…
Continue ReadingI have been where you are and I remember how much it hurts to be disliked, to be bullied. I…
Continue ReadingDear Bully, Hello. Do you remember me? Well, maybe you don't remember me, but I remember you. I remember all…
Continue ReadingThere’s almost nothing harder than being a parent when your kid gets hurt. Physical pain is certainly hard to cope…
Continue ReadingBullying is defined as "unwanted, aggressive behavior with a real or perceived imbalance of power." Ask any elementary-aged kid what…
Continue ReadingOne in three students say they have been bullied at school. One in three. Why are our children so mean…
Continue ReadingAs a former public school teacher and a mom to teenagers, 13 Reasons Why hasn’t been far from my radar…
Continue ReadingI was cruising the grocery store aisles with my son when I caught two boys lurking in my periphery and…
Continue ReadingDon’t be a d**k. Gosh, sounds easy enough, right. My husband and I have said this to our own kids.…
Continue ReadingMy baby just struck another child. Besides being mortified at what the other kid’s mom must be thinking, my heart…
Continue Reading“Mom, I’m going to a friend’s house,” my twelve-year-old son calls to me as he is headed out the door.…
Continue ReadingI walked swiftly down the familiar narrow blue hallway of my high school and clutched my algebra book as if…
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