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Where does the balance lie between being a helicopter parent and the hands-off, just-let-kids-work-it-out-for-themselves approach? As a dad, I'm still trying to figure this out.
Where does the balance lie between being a helicopter parent and the hands-off, just-let-kids-work-it-out-for-themselves approach? As a dad, I'm still trying to figure this out.
It's a fact: Colorado schools are hostile environments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) young people. But change is on the way.
As a parent, I feel we have to crack down on bullying in our schools, help raise awareness among fellow parents, among teachers and administrators, and anyone who can intervene in some way
It's important for schools to have clear and comprehensive anti-bullying policies, but policies that target only the bad behavior will never solve the problem.
It was a dreaded gift that started Irene's wardrobe issues for almost over a year. The gift you may ask? A pair of jeans. What's wrong with the gift of jeans, you may ask again? They were jeans like no other.
Peter knew he was gay at age 13 and his peers assumed he was, too. And the high levels of LGBT school victimization he sustained because of this marked his future in devastating ways.
Lisa Scottoline's latest novel Save Me starts off as a story about parental love and protection. It involves elements of childhood bullying, parental ...
I've been working in the field of Internet safety for 17 years, and the deeper I get into it, the more I realize that Internet safety for kids and teens isn't about the Internet or really even about safety.
The San Francisco Giants will become the first team in professional sports to produce an "It Gets Better" video taking a stand against anti-gay bullying and homophobia, supported by more than 6,500 fans and four San Francisco mayoral candidates.
True story: I go to Saturday yoga and the woman next to me starts chatting me up before class. Somehow she gets onto gurus and we have a chuckle abo...
Arts education, particularly theater education, may be an effective method of teaching young people tolerance, and helping them recognize, and stand up against, injustice.
What we are experiencing is an epidemic of ineffective bullying prevention educational programs and public service announcements.
Too many schools around the country still allow the abuse of LGBT students to such a degree that Lambda Legal and our sister organizations can predict the fact patterns.
The religious right's efforts to boycott and counteract an anti-bullying day of silence shows the staggering extent of its campaign to prevent the recognition and acceptance of gay people in all parts of society.
Bullying and violence can be prevented, but it takes an entire community working together, including teens, to find a lasting solution.
A cyber-bullying PSA presented by the American Bar Association manages to not only be laughably stereotypical, but send the message that suicide is the best revenge against bullies.
On March 8, Senators Robert Casey (D-PA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) reintroduced the Safe Schools Improvement Act (SSIA), S. 506.
One of the most pernicious but least discussed stereotypes of LGBT persons portrays them as a highly privileged population. This false claim has far reaching implications for the must vulnerable members of our society.
There are three types of people involved in a violent situation: the perpetrator, the victim and the bystander. Our society is largely made up of bystanders -- people who observe violent behavior, but do little or nothing to stop it.
The current conversation may be linked to the issue of bullying; however, we should not assume that a positive school climate affects only a defined behavior or set of skills.
What far too many kids know and experience on a daily basis but we deny is that far too many adults are ill-equipped to respond effectively and often only cause the child to give up on adults entirely.