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Stomp Out Bullying

February 17, 2011

This week I am featured on Lifetimemoms.com, being interviewed by Beth Feldman. She is raising money to help her community stomp out bullying and asked me to speak at an event she’s having in New Rochelle on March 3rd. I would appreciate it if you checked out the interview and voted for her! Go here [...]

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The Power of Hope

February 17, 2011

Over the past two years, we’ve heard horror story after horror story about bullying – including kids setting another child on fire out of revenge, a middle school boy so tormented by bullying that he killed himself, and the suicides of Pheobe Prince and Tyler Clementi. It breaks my heart to think that anyone, especially a child, [...]

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A Letter From A Parent

February 1, 2011

I recently received this letter from a parent regarding “I’ve Got A New Home: An activity book for kids on the move”. He gave me permission to share his story with you. ____________ Taryn, My family moved to a new house last year at this time. My daughter was 7 and my son was 2. [...]

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If Only…

December 10, 2010

I’ve been doing some research, in preparation for an upcoming TV segment. I’m reading about a 16 year-old boy, who walked into a bathroom in his high school, and stabbed and killed a 15 year-old student who he didn’t even know. As I go through all the details, all I can think is, “if only.” [...]

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The Truth About Parenting A Bullied Child

December 1, 2010

The first thing that most of us do when we get in the car to go somewhere new is affirm our destination. We punch it into our GPS or perhaps we already have done our research on Mapquest. The point is that we usually know where we are going. I stress that fact to my kids [...]

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What We Can Learn From Our Kids

December 1, 2010

During the summer, I had the opportunity to spend a week hanging out with five really wonderful kids, ages 9-12. In an effort to make sure we didn’t get sick of one another by day two, I decided to kick it up a notch and have the kids create a short film. I figured that would [...]

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A Letter From A Parent

October 21, 2010

I recently received this letter from a parent regarding “I’ve Got A New Home: An activity book for kids on the move”. He gave me permission to share his story with you. ____________ Taryn, My family moved to a new house last year at this time. My daughter was 7 and my son was 2. Both [...]

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Don’t Label Me

October 16, 2010

Labels seem to be a really big issue lately. Who might be a victim, or a bully, athletic, or bookish, gay, or straight? I can’t help but wonder why it’s so important to decide who is what. We are who we are and as long as we are decent, compassionate human beings, what’s the issue? [...]

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The Truth About Parenting A Bullied Child

October 9, 2010

I usually don’t repost an article, but considering everything that is going on right now in regard to bullying, I thought it would be worth repeating. -TGH *********** The first thing that most of us do when we get in the car to go somewhere new is affirm our destination. We punch it into our [...]

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When did doing the right thing become merely “an option”?

October 7, 2010

Quite often in the past few years, I’ve been really disappointed when I turn on the news, or read the paper. Everything from petty theft to corporations conspiring to cut corners, at the risk of humanity, has gotten me to wondering when doing the right thing become merely an “option”? I worry that the “it’s [...]

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