Teach Survival. This weeks Activities to Build on.
Monday 4/27 Teach Survival The world is a tough place. My daughter didn’t tell me she was bullied in 6th Grade until last night, we had moved to a new community that year, We were close as a family, my two daughters and I. We shared dinners together, spent lots of time driving to activities, spent time with our family (who we lived near there), but she never shared that girls in that school were mean to her until now. The close friend she made in a boy at that school is still one of her closest friends. When I asked her why she hadn't shared this before, she said, "Mom, kids never tell their parents when they are being bullied." I thought, yes, this is true, and why I am so "on" when it comes to bullying and kids being kind and respectful of each other always . On a positive note, she made good friends there, was a part of many different groups, a wonderful Church, American Girls (like Girl Scouts at a Library, based on the American Girls dolls