Joe:
Thanks for joining us today, Kathy, I just wanted to start the conversation, by asking you how you came to get
interested in the topic of dealing with bullies? Was it a personal experience?
Kathy: Thanks, Joe.
Yes, I think we've all been bullied to some degree. Even if you were never physically
bullied, there is probably someone you can think of who tried to control you at some point
in your life. Bullies use mind games as a form of "mental control."
When Dr. Jay Carter wrote his self-help book about invalidation between adults entitled,
"Nasty People," he received a ton of mail from readers whose lives he helped,
and changed. A lot of those people were parents who requested he write another version of
his book that their children would understand and could benefit. After 8 years of
searching for the right person to write a children's version of his best-selling book, he
found me.
He placed an ad in the personal's looking for a co-author. I sent him writing samples of
my children's short stories. He said he picked me out of over 50 people who sent him their
information/samples!
Jay said he feels I have an original style of writing, and the ability to talk with young
people on their level. He felt I was perfect for the project, and I didn't want to let him
down. I worked on the book day and night, interviewing older and younger people on both
bullying and self-esteem issues.
This book was written because there is a need for it. Bullying has become a very serious,
hot-topic today. We're seeing more and more trouble with bullies in the news. Some have
driven other children to suicide.
Bullying has been around for as long as people have been around, but it's only been
recently that we've become aware enough to do something about it.
Joe:
Thank you Kathy for being here today.
I would like to move on to an important essay from you
which gives us background and some useful tips on bullying. I hope everyone gets achance
to read it and perhaps join our discussion group on ParentTalk
Meet the Author
The Explosive Child by Ross
Greene, Ph.D.
hosted by Joe Spataro interview & FREE Guide to Explosive
Children Now there is a new way for you, your
child, and your entire family to find help. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Ross
Greene, a child psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School,
makes a compassionate argument that the difficulties of these children stem from
developmental deficits in two critical skills: flexibility and frustration tolerance. He
asserts that if such children could do well, they would. We have an interview with
Dr. Greene and an excerpt for his book that will help you identify if you child has this
problem and what you can do about it.
Violence in America
by Joe Spataro has ideas and resources for you to help combat violence in your own life. There
is FREE information (like the brochure to the right) and place to go to find out more. If
you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. Find out more today.
Real Boys:
Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William S. Pollack,
Mary Pipher
What are little boys made of? In Real Boys: Rescuing Our
Sons from the Myths of Boyhood author and psychologist William Pollack presents his
findings from almost 20 years of clinical work and his recently completed study examining
contemporary boyhood and the ways boys manifest their social and emotional disconnection
through anger and violence. There's a code of boy behavior, Pollack says--an unspoken
"boy code" that teaches boys how to act and demands that they cover up their
emotions.
A Tribe Apart:
A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence by Patricia Hersch
Why do teenagers so often seem like a different species? Journalist Patricia Hersch gives
a troubling answer in her fascinating, up-close-and-personal look at what it means to be a
teen in today's American high schools. Rather than interviewing "high-risk"
teens (those already swept up in a cycle of drug use, gang violence, or unintended
pregnancy, for example), Hersch focuses her attention on "regular
kids"--adolescents who are average achievers on academic and social levels.
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Essay
by author Kathy Noll
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