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Joe Van Deuren on December 16th, 2009

In 2008, 40 percent of all teenagers with Internet access reported being bullied online.
Cyber bullying can take many forms.  It could be rude texts from unknown phone numbers.
A bully might post threats on your personal message board.  Or they could break into your facebook account and lock you out.
If you or your kids are being [...]

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Joe Van Deuren on September 13th, 2009

Of course we want to believe that our child would never be the ‘bully’.  But what if your child really is a bully?  I believe that if we were to be honest when we examine ourselves,  that each of us could find times in our lives that we have been the bully.  The reasons that [...]

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Joe Van Deuren on October 15th, 2008

So what kind of a person are you?  If you are  person who likes to have lots of friends, then we need to know how to be a a good friend.  The easiest and best way to be a good friend is being someone who builds the other person up.  What I mean is you [...]

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Joe Van Deuren on October 12th, 2008

With the increase in cell phones and computer use, comes a decrease in parents’ involvement. Here are some tips that encourage parents to stay proactive instead of having to react when your son or daughter may be bullied.

Children should not be online behind closed doors. Place the computer in a public area of the house [...]

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Joe Van Deuren on October 8th, 2008

As parents we must be careful to take time to hear the whole story.
Children and adults are many times very clever at covering up the attacks that they make, sometimes even making themselves look like the victim.  Here is how it can happen.  Recently I was told a story about a child who was in [...]

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Joe Van Deuren on October 1st, 2008

The whole month of September we have been talking about respect with our students. As one mom said that is the theme of your school all of the time, but this month we focused in more detail on that subject. One of the definitions we used was, “showing appreciation for the value in [...]

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