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Archive for October, 2011
Girl Scouts Know How to Be Friends Indeed!
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This morning, I had the GREAT honor and pleasure of doing a workshop for about 120 Girl Scouts and their moms (ages 5-11), based on some of the lessons and activities in Friendship & Other Weapons. We focused on specific ways that the girls can become allies to someone who is being bullied both before, during, and after bullying situations. In less than 10 minutes, the amazing girls came up with over 60 ways to be a friend to someone who is being bullied! They also learned that:
It is never OK to do nothing about bullying!
Here are a few of the “How to Be a Friend” and “Stop Bullying” posters they left with me to share with you. Please check the Bullying in Elementary School link to see more and to find out how to schedule a Friendship & Other Weapons workshop for your group of girls.
How Friendship & Other Weapons Came to Life
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This morning, an interviewer asked me how the idea for Friendship & Other Weapons came to be. Thought it was worth sharing with you as well…
My previous book, How to Be Angry, started with the fundamental premise that anger is OK; its 15-session curriculum is all about giving children, tweens and teens specific assertive skills to express their anger in constructive, relationship-building ways. After writing the book, it became obvious to me that there is a large group of young people who are shut out from this basic presupposition that anger is a normal, natural human experience. Millions of young girls in the United States grow up immersed in a social universe in which “being angry” is equated with “being bad” or, at best, not “being nice.” (more…)
Loving the Challenging Child
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Sometimes, you read just the right article at just the right time. Tonight was my night for that.
I adore Maggie Lamond Simone’s writing. She seems to always take exactly what I am thinking and say it in a way that is hilarious and poignant and touching all at once. For any Mom or Dad who loves a child whose strengths are also exactly what makes him a challenge, please check out her post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maggie-lamond-simone/loving-the-problem-child_b_1001376.html