{"id":622,"date":"2014-10-01T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2014-10-03T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:52:09","slug":"october-is-national-bullying-prevention-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/october-is-national-bullying-prevention-month\/","title":{"rendered":"October is National Bullying Prevention Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here at Sit With A Kid, we obviously (see our motto) believe in spending time laughing, playing, and reading together. Teaching kindness by example is the best way we know to prevent bullying. That said, let&rsquo;s start with the bad.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know&hellip;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 in 4 kids are bullied at school?<\/li>\n<li>40% of children report being cyber-bullied?<\/li>\n<li>each day 160,000 students miss school for fear of being bullied?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>1 in 10 children drops out of school every year due to bullying.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> is a crazy, horrible statistic. I wish I could un-know it, but I wish even more that it wasn&rsquo;t true. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So, I could quote more stats, or we could talk about what a great idea it is to have a month of awareness for <strong>10%<\/strong> of our children. I salute whoever came up with this idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are 11 other months this year in which we should be strong in our kindness and compassion, but this month especially: wear orange to raise awareness, pay a compliment, don&rsquo;t be a bystander, make peace, hold hands, and remember, one kind word from you can ROCK SOMEONE&rsquo;S WORLD.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the last page of our book, the gorilla has a choice. He can choose to turn the turtle&rsquo;s world right side up&hellip;or not. I challenge all of you to be the gorilla and make the choice you know needs to be made.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found.&nbsp; It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.&nbsp; Small acts of kindness and love. &ndash;Gandalf<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about how to participate this month, visit PACER&rsquo;s site&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacer.org\/bullying\">National Bullying Prevention Center<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141001_153705.jpg\" class=\" wwm_socialshare_imagewrapper \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-628\" alt=\"20141001_153705\" src=\"http:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141001_153705-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141001_153705-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141001_153705-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wwm_social_share wwm_top_left\"><li class=\"wwm_facebook\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_twitter\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_gplus\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_pinit\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_tumblr\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_linked\"><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Sit With A Kid, we obviously (see our motto) believe in spending time laughing, playing, and reading together. Teaching kindness by example is the best way we know to prevent bullying. That said, let&rsquo;s start with the bad. Did you know&hellip; 1 in 4 kids are bullied at school? 40% of children report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"October is National Bullying Prevention Month http:\/\/wp.me\/p2JhDF-a2","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swakpub"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JhDF-a2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}