Bullying does not have to be “a normal part of childhood,” nor do kids “grow out of it naturally.” Parents have the power to change the world by teaching kids how to create positive power dynamics. “The Bullying Antidote focuses on solutions. Parents will evolve.” — Dr. Laura Markham The Bullying Antidote is a well-researched resource for practical […]
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The Big Read Begins!
It’s been two and a half years since The Bullying Antidote hit the shelves, and we are finally launching discussion groups! It really is a book designed to create change in groups. As a matter of fact, the stickers on the Zorgos Project books read, “Don’t read this book alone!” Would you like to discuss […]
A Christmas Miracle
I was stopped in my tracks this morning when my clever and funny husband pointed to the top of a car we were passing on our walk. The beads of water that had collected after last night’s kiss of needed moisture were crazed with ice, and a thick layer of frost grew up all around. […]
ZORGOS PROJECT fundraiser ends tonight!
I am not BULLYING you into donating with this final fundraising push… I’m asking! Nicely! (And a little giddy at the 11th hour!) One of my dear readers tells me he opens The Bullying Antidote every day to a random page, and like an oracle, there is always a bit of wisdom that applies to his life. Opening […]
Happy Hour for Happier Kids!
Let’s start Thanksgiving early at The Lake Chalet! We are working hard to bring The ZORGOS Project to Oakland, and our Start Some Good fundraiser (http://startsomegood.com/zorgos) ends the day before Thanksgiving! Help us meet our goal and share in our GRATITUDE with our supporters at this event!
While writing The Bullying Antidote…
One week to go in my fundraiser for Oakland Kids. Please donate, share, participate! * * * * While writing Chapter 3: Problematic Childrearing Practices, outside my open window my nineteen-year-old neighbor who lives with her unemployed mother sat with her girlfriend on the steps of the apartment next door. Her toddler, ready for a […]
What I Did For National Bullying Month
It’s been a busy October! I started a little job as Site Lead at an elementary school for the NoBully program. After having written about out-of-the-box Bully Prevention Programs (Chapter 6 of TBA), it is interesting to be involved in one! NoBully succeeds by building empathy…a key component of Zorgos! (More on this later.) But there […]
Your Writing Exercise… is to Exercise!
So, even the great Socrates was into fitness. He said, “No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” I’m not sure the guy thought much about […]
Play With Me on the Park Piano
If you’ve never sung along with my hit (ha ha) song, “Joaquin Miller (Went Walkin’),” you can now saunter up to the piano at the place where it belongs, and hum a few bars yourself. Here’s an article by Linda Brown from Write Angles, the California Writers Club newsletter. (I included some other newsy bits because this […]
Five States in Five Days [She Writes]
This bit of writing, an exclusive to SheWrites, is nowhere near as ambitious as the thirty-one posts of the Ten Pounds in Ten Days blog I wrote this spring about a trip to Italy in which I went alone while my traveling companion had brain surgery (and didn’t gain a pound, darn it.) No, this is the opposite of […]
Cosmic Citizens Don't Like Bullying!
In a wonderful two-hour interview I did in Boulder, Colorado, with Paula Thompson, Andre Radatus, and Christilyn Biek-Larson, the hosts of Cosmic Citizen Radio, I only said “um” about 800 times and “you know” about 9000 times! We talked about bullying from a spiritual perspective, and everyone left feeling full of Zorgos, inspired by Gandalf, and empowered to go out and change the […]
Congraduations!
As my son wraps up his first 13 years of Public School Education, I am wrapping up my own 13-year career as a parent volunteer and, as it turned out, leader. I never expected, when we chose a school for Kindergarten, how much activism would be required. We entered the system at a time it was falling […]