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It's Bullying Prevention Awareness Week

By Dave Rogers - Sun Oct 5, 2008 10:00am PDT
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Every day, more than 160,000 kids stay home from school because of bullying.

3.2 million children are victims of bullying every year.

42 percent of children have been bullied while online.

That's why Yahoo! Kids is proud to partner with the PACER Center to promote National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week from October 5-11—an effort that encourages communities nationwide to work together to increase awareness of the prevalence and impact of bullying on all children.

PACER, a national parent center, serves families of children and youth with disabilities. It provides resources such as publications, workshops, and individualized assistance and helps families make decisions about education, vocational training, employment, and other services for their child. Its Bullying Prevention Project is for all children, including children with disabilities, and promotes bullying awareness and teaches effective ways to respond to bullying.

If you were the target of a bully as a child, you know the feelings it elicits—loneliness, sadness, fear and more. Yet children who bully also suffer, being more likely than others to experience school failure, depression and other problems. Bullying is a community problem.

"It's time to take action," says Paula Goldberg, executive director of PACER. "Teachers, parents, students and adults throughout each community must work together to create a climate that doesn’t accept bullying. When bullying is reduced, communities will see more students with higher self-esteem, better school attendance, less physical and mental stress and better school performance.”

During Bullying Prevention Awareness Week, Yahoo! Kids has dedicated space on our Front Page and StudyZone to outstanding resources provided by PACER. We encourage you to share these videos, cartoons and activities with your children.

Yahoo! Kids Parents will feature PACER's excellent materials on bullying prevention in daily blog posts. We will also provide information from our own library on the growing problem of cyber-bullying.

Please join us in spreading the word about Bullying Prevention Awareness Week—and reducing the impact of bullying on the children of our communities.

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Posted by sandy.agans Mon Oct 6, 2008 7:41am PDT

Some kids can be so mean i think we parents need to talk to our kids more than we do because kids dont tell everything that goes on with them untill it to late and when its to late they have done something they did not mean to do so lets step up and say this is not cool at all

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Posted by Jazmine Mon Oct 6, 2008 4:45pm PDT

hib

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Posted by BABE Girl 19 Wed Oct 8, 2008 10:20am PDT

we need to STOP all of the buldong at school.

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Posted by shavakawalls Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:21pm PDT

i agree bullying is not okay? how do we prevent this from happening to our children? i have a two year old,i want to prevent him from being bullied and i want to prevent him from bullying others?

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Posted by shavakawalls Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:21pm PDT

i agree bullying is not okay? how do we prevent this from happening to our children? i have a two year old,i want to prevent him from being bullied and i want to prevent him from bullying others?

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Posted by Lanna Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:36am PDT

I hope someone can figure out how to stop bullying. I ended up pulling my son out of high school partially to the bullying. He has gotten his GED & is now enrolled in the community college taking the surgical tech class. He is to young to take regular college classes at this time, but will be able to when he completes this course. In one way bullying help him get a headstart on higher education, but it made his life miserable while in middle school & the time in high school. I worry about his younger brother.

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Posted by Lanna Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:36am PDT

I hope someone can figure out how to stop bullying. I ended up pulling my son out of high school partially to the bullying. He has gotten his GED & is now enrolled in the community college taking the surgical tech class. He is to young to take regular college classes at this time, but will be able to when he completes this course. In one way bullying help him get a headstart on higher education, but it made his life miserable while in middle school & the time in high school. I worry about his younger brother.

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