Stop Bullying
Day of Pink is a day of action that took place this year on April 10. It was created when a youth in a high school in Cambridge, Nova Scotia was bullied because he wore a pink shirt to school. His fellow peers decided to stand up to this bullying, and hundreds of students showed support for diversity and stopping discrimination, gender-bullying and homophobia, by wearing pink. Bullying has an impact on the mental health of our youth and a topic current in the media. Bullying is always intentional and mean-spirited, it rarely happens only once, and the victim cannot hold his own. It is not teasing. If this has happened to your child, they are not alone. One American study suggests one in seven school children is either a bully or a victim. It is starting at younger ages and far more aggress...