After watching AC360's extraordinary report on the inhumane treatment of Sandusky's alleged victims and the cover up that is now occurring, I have a suggestion for the chief of police who hid in his office rather than talk to the reporter. Instead of cowering, he should get himself...

If there is anything to be learned from last week's revelations regarding Penn State, it is which institutions are most likely to abdicate their fundamental responsibilities and what are the dynamics that stop people from following what so obviously looks like the only moral course of action.

This Friday, October 14th at 8 p.m. ET, CNN's Anderson Cooper's special report"Bullying: It Stops Here," features groundbreaking research that truly depicts bullying at its core. The results challenge much of the conventional wisdom that has done little to effectively address the problem. CNN commissioned University of California...

As a mom, I deal with a lot of smells. Some are pleasant. Clean laundry and a simmering stew on the stove come to mind. Others are not as pleasant.

A few days ago I walked into my house at the end of a long day and was immediately assaulted...

Starting today, you can join a powerful anti-bullying campaign that truly has the potential to change lives and make our children safe from bullying. It's the "Stop Bullying: Speak Up" campaign and pledge.

As someone...

Transformational leaders inspire by challenging what we hold to be true. They demand that we examine our assumptions, question their validity, and encourage discourse.

Especially when doing so makes us uncomfortable.

Jess Weiner, in her recent article, "Loving My Body Almost Killed Me," in the September issue...

In my recent article, "The NEA and WWE's New Anti-Bullying Campaign," I questioned the National Education Association and the Creative Coalition for partnering with WWE to create the Be A Star anti-bullying program. Many people, specifically fans of the WWE and Ms. Robin Bronk, Executive Director of the...

What if I told you that World Wrestling Entertainment had partnered with the National Education Association to do an anti-bullying campaign?

Would you think it was a bad joke?

It's no joke.

The WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment, recently announced the "Be A Star" bullying prevention program in partnership with the...

The Kind Campaign's recently announced partnership with Mattel is an opportunity for any of us who advocate for children or any social cause to think about a very difficult question; how do we collaborate with larger, more...

When you work in bullying prevention like I do, you are repeatedly asked if there is a bullying epidemic. Sometimes it's said as a statement of fact. An epidemic is a sudden, widespread occurrence of a particular undesirable phenomenon. Since conflict and abuse of power are inevitable between...

Thanks to Emily Bazelon's excellent article in Slate, "How Not To Prevent Cyberbullying," I just watched "Cyber-bullying" a PSA video presented by the American Bar Association, with the endorsement of Microsoft, Time Warner Inc., and the U.S. Department of Education Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, among...

Recently I've taken a hard look at the advice we give to kids who are being bullied and challenged all of us who work on this issue to do better. Now I want to question the common advice we give bystanders. This is critical for two reasons; we...

During the recent White House Bullying Summit, the president challenged the people who work in bullying prevention to look at their current work and see where we could improve. His request came at a time when I'd actually been thinking about the same thing. Why? Because about a month ago...

Having just read Laura Sessions Stepp's latest article, on the end of "Mean Girls" and the increase of "Gamma Girls" in adult women, I'm compelled to respond for several reasons.

As the author of Queen Bees and Wannabes, it may be surprising that I'm the one who is...

When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. "High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college." But it's true -- as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in...

As I've stayed glued to the unfolding election crisis in Iran, I became curious if young people in this country would be interested as well. And I have to say that what I've seen challenges the image of vapid teens obsessed with celebrity sightings on TMZ or Perez Hilton or...

I am so glad Lisa Belkin wrote the article "The End of Over-Parenting" in last week's New York Times. As someone who works with parents and is a mother of two sons, 6 and 8, Belkin's take is refreshing, overdue, and one I hope fellow parents take to heart....

Over the weekend I read "A Prom Divided" by Sara Corbett in the New York Times Magazine. In it she describes an annual tradition at a public high school in Montgomery County, Georgia--racially segregated proms. While you may read this and be rightfully shocked that something like this is...

It's been a difficult spring. The schools I work with have experienced an unprecedented level of bullying. An 8th grade boy beats up a female student on the bus while his peers egg him on. A sophomore boy refuses to take down embarrassing pictures he has of a female student...

When I set out to write Queen Bees & Wannabes six years ago, my goal was simply to give parents a guide to better understand the world of their teenage daughter. I wanted to validate girls and women's emotional experiences by challenging the belief that "girls will be girls" and...