Clean socks are a privilege, not a right
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to sit down with some of my fellow bloggers and couple of representatives from Facebook to discuss their safety and privacy strategies. I jumped at the chance. While my kids are surrounded by social media because of what I do, I have not been all that quick […]
My first thoughts about Pink Shirt Day, is that it doesn’t work. This was reinforced when both my kids told me today that they had been, in their own words, bullied. The word, for my kids, basically means any ass-holish behaviour directed at them. Their definition of the term, no matter the talks, the videos, the pamphlets, […]
This past Wednesday Amanda Todd of Port Coquitlam, B.C. ended her own life because of bullying she faced. The local media, quite rightly, is asking serious questions about how this could have happened and how we as a society should deal with it. As an elementary teacher in a Metro Vancouver school district for 16 […]
