When they break your heart, love them more…I’m not talking MEN, I’m talking about our tender children. Fragile, often mean, insensitive and sad - without the gift of tongue to express themselves.
When my first child was born, I lived in New York City. My husband and I were accustomed to eating breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner and dessert in restaurants far more often than our own kitchen.
We got a rude awakening the first time we tried to take our adorable infant to my favorite Italian restaurant. Think red-checked tablecloths, candles, and olive oil imported from Tivoli. I was on first-name terms with both the ricotta ala rigatoni and the maître’d.
The media is filled with news about bullying. The question is, does all of the attention help to decrease the bullying? Unfortunately, the answer is not clear.
We recently published on article - "When Is It Ok To Discipline Other People's Kids?" - on when (and if) it's acceptable to step in and discipline another person's child and we were overwhelmed by responses!
While almost all of you agree that it's NEVER ok to use physical discipline, such as spanking, opinions were much more divided over whether an adult should step in and verbally address bad behavior.
Here's what we heard from our readers:
Apparently not even dolphins are safe from the bullying epidemic.
A lone dolphin who has spent the past five days swimming in California wetlands while the rest of its pod returned to the ocean may be a victim of bullying, according to wildlife experts.
The 7-foot, 700 pound marine mammal has been lingering in a shallow channel in the Bolsa Chica wetlands in Huntington Beach, California.
First a dad shoots his daughter's laptop over Facebook, now a mom X's out her daughter's mouth?
An Ohio mother who’d had enough of her 13-year-old daughter spouting off about her on Facebook exacted her revenge in a creative way. Denise Abbott “replaced her daughter’s profile picture with a photo of the girl with a red ‘X’ superimposed over her mouth," according to MSNBC.
"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." - Anonymous
“Good boy!” My toddler says those two words like they are magic. He points at himself proudly. “I no hit Sienna. Cookie.” He waits for his reward. But I just look at him with a note of dismay, so he adds another magic word. “Please.”
My daughter thinks she is a boy.
I realized the chances of her being a tomboy were quite high, what with two older brothers and all.
I have absolutely no issue with that, except for where clothing is concerned.
“A little hope is good,” says the wicked President Snow in the best-selling science fiction novel, The Hunger Games. “But too much hope is very dangerous.”
Bullying is a hot topic now. The talk shows want more on bullying, the blogosphere is full to the brim with posts on bullying, and left and right there are speakers on the topic of bullying.
