1. We all have stories. (Many of you have been generous enough to share them with me. Thank you.) We played different roles in those stories: teased or teasing, standing by or standing up for someone, some mix of all of these. But we have in common the vividness with which those stories have stayed […]
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As I’ve been talking about bullying this week, I’ve been getting a sense once again–as we all did when contributors for Young Adult Authors Against Bullying and Dear Bully first stepped forward–of just how many people bullying and teasing experiences resonate for. Here and in email, some of you have been telling me pieces of
We conducted the interview from a studio on the UA Campus, in a room with just a camera and lights and mike and me talking by satellite with CNN’s studios.I was hugely nervous beforehand, but then suddenly we were doing it, and it was fine!And hopefully will help do some real good, as well.You can
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I recently wrote an article for Salon.com as part of their Interview with my Bully Series. You can read it here. (With thanks to David Santisi for allowing me to share his letters as well as my own.)To read many many more stories from writers about their bullying experiences, look for the Dear Bully anthology,
The Dear Bully anthology, edited by Carrie Jones and Megan Kelly Hall,with essays from 70 different authors (including me) talking about their bullying experiences, is out this week.My own bullying experiences–which didn’t involve any specific person, but pretty much my entire school, through elementary school and junior high–pretty much defined my school experiences. I’ve never
From shweta-narayan, the worst thing you can tell a bullied kid: “If they don’t like you, you must be doing something wrong.”Which got me to thinking about how one of the best possible things you can say to a bullied kid is the direct opposite of this: “It’s not you. It’s them.”Those are the words
It’s not you. It’s them. Read More »
… and they all need to stop.DayOfSilence.Org
There are many kinds of bullying … Read More »
klwilliams asks the reasonable question what can non-bullied kids do about bullying. I don’t know how to make it stop, though I know there are intervention programs in schools–involving the whole school, from admin to kids–that have managed to do some good. _twilight_ has some useful-sounding suggestions.But more and more, thinking about it, what one
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Yesterday I posted my bullying story. Others have been doing the same–here are some of their links:– Carrie Jones: Bullying and me– Carrie Jones: Phoebe Prince, authors, Em, and bullying– Saundra Mitchell: There’s a light– Jeannine Garsee: More than just “bullying”– S.A. Putnam: My story – part one– S.A. Putnam: My story – part two–
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Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones have started the facebook groupYA Authors Against Bullying in response to Phoebe Prince’s suicide after being bullied by classmates, and as a result various writers have started sharing their bullying experiences.Here’s carriejones talking about her experiences with bullying and her daughter’s. Here’s onegrapeshy doing the same.And here’s me.For me,
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