Zach Hayden, a local self-defense expert and martial artist joined other experts that traveled worldwide to attend the recent Instructor Certification for the FAST Defense program. FAST Defense is the result of an evolution in a self-defense system that started thirty five years ago and was voted Black Belt Magazine’s Best Self-Defense in the Industry. FAST is an acronym for [...]
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From The Blaze: Sexting, or sending sexual text messages to friends, is a surprisingly common phenomenon among the youth. As of 2009, about 20% of teens admitted to “sexting,” according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. In the New York Times, there‘s a sad and shocking story of how sexting altered one young girl’s life. She was [...]
From Mashable.com: Justin Bieber has teamed up with MTV and Facebook to take a stand against cyberbullying. The teen star called for young people to post an action to MTV’s Draw Your Line, a virtual map and support forum that tracks efforts to stop digital abuse. To spur participation, Bieber is offering a chance to win one of 14 prizes just by [...]
By Janelle Walker For The Courier-News Dec 8, 2010 8:28PM CARPENTERSVILLE — Bullies, according to one fifth-grader at Lakewood Elementary School, are people who don’t feel good about themselves, so they pick on other people. Martial arts, such as those demonstrated to the school’s physical education classes this week, can help those bullies find self-confidence and self-control so they don’t feel the [...]
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(CBS) More than 160,000 children miss school every day because they are scared of being bullied, according to theNational Education Association. Bullying is a national problem, often with tragic results. But Dr. Phil McGraw, host of the popular show “Dr. Phil,” has begun a fight against this behavior, delving into the topic several times on his show and even traveled [...]
By Evan Brandt, ebrandt@pottsmerc.com The Josephson Institute of Ethics, which released a study last week indicating roughly half of all high school students have either bullied or been bullied in the past year, has also put together this quiz for parents to test their awareness of the issue. Take it and test your awareness. 1) I have had a serious talk [...]
(UKPA) – 1 day ago Susan Boyle feels “like a princess” since being embraced around the world following years of bullying. The international singing sensation spoke about the psychological damage caused by school bullying while appearing on Oprah Winfrey’s US chat show. She said: “(Bullies were) burning my clothes with a cigarette and stuff like that and trying to trip me [...]
