Featured in “Inside Kung Fu” Magazine
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Bully Proof Success Stories from Readers
These past two weeks have been exciting. Last week I spoke at the Sunburst Youth Academy, a federal and… [more]
What Jamey Rodemeyer Can Teach Us All
Jamey Rodemeyer’s video “cry for help”, as well as his suicide, have become national attention because of Lady Gaga – and Thank God for that. This story is sad for a number of reasons, many of which are obvious, so I won’t go into them here. What is most helpful for victims of bullying, parents [...]
Florida State Law Reducing Bullying – Or Is It?
This morning, while sipping my morning coffee, I ran across an interesting article regarding the results of Florida’s Jeffrey’s Law, a law that was passed mandating Florida schools reported, tracked and took action to stop bullying in schools. What made the article interesting were the numbers that were reported; some school districts reported zero instances [...]
Warning: Bullies Hide In Plain Sight
Dictionary.com defines a bully as, “a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.” If you believe in this definition, bullies are very easy to spot. If you remember back to the video of the boy from Australia that I wrote about back in March, it was very evident who [...]
Australian Boy Shows One Way to Handle a Bully – and More…
Last night, a video from YouTube (now taken down) was featured on a national news channel, showing an incident of bullying that was – quite frankly – shocking. It was shocking, not only because of the graphic nature of the content, but because of the lessons it taught regarding bullying. The video – shot at [...]
Video Shows Why Martial Arts Training is Necessary to Defend Against Bullying
I have to warn you: the video assoicated with this post is graphic and disturbing. I also have to warn you that I am about to do something I normally DO NOT do – I am going to SHAMLESSLY plug something that I think every parent should consider for their child when it comes to [...]
What to Do When You are the Bully
I know – you are reading this and thinking to yourself, “There is no way I would ever act like a bully.” Sometimes you do act like a bully – and everyone around you knows you are acting like one – except you. How does this happen? Here’s how it has happened to me in [...]
Politician Finally Gets It When It Comes to Bullying
It isn’t often you hear a politician say something you actually agree with on any subject – especially bullying; even more rare when they say something that is one hundred percent true in the real world, and not based on ideaology or “Ivory Tower” academic theory. That is why when I witnessed this hard-hitting, unpopular, [...]
Happy Belated New Year from the Bully Proof Sensei
I can’t believe it is the 10th of January, 2011 ALREADY – and I haven’t wished you a Happy New Year yet! Things have been crazy here around Bully Proof Central – the re-release of the book, “Bully Proof Kids” , now re-named to “Bullies Suck”; the building of the Bully Proof Brigade Members Area, [...]
