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No Name Calling Week

Spilled Milk: What Would Dr. King Do?

William Lucas Walker | Posted 04.30.2013 | Parents
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William Lucas Walker

To celebrate my one-year anniversary writing for The Huffington Post, here is a gift for you at the end of our shortest month: my shortest column. G...

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Tackling Name Calling On The School Field (VIDEO)

Eliza Byard | Posted 03.24.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: No Name Calling Week, Megan Rapinoe, Bullying, Glsen, School Bullying, Physical Education, Anti-Bullying, Bullying in Sports, Name Calling, GLSEN Changing the Game, Changing the Game, Changing the Game: The GLSEN Sports Project, Changing the Game: GLSEN Sports Project, Sports Homophobia, Athletics, Video, Gay Voices News
Eliza Byard

Megan Rapinoe represents what is possible when LGBT athletes are supported and respected, but it's heartbreaking to think of the potential excellence still being wasted by fear, and the barriers that that fear poses to the health of students who would rather skip school than go to gym.

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Spilled Milk: It's No Name-Calling Week... You Moron

William Lucas Walker | Posted 03.24.2013 | Parents
Read More: Name-Calling, Spilled Milk, School, Means Kids, No Name Calling Week, Bullying, Sissy, Racial-Epithets, Parents News
William Lucas Walker

Being the victim of name-calling, especially at a young age, typically results in feelings of isolation. Feelings some children won't share with their parents unprompted. Lead the way.

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A Lesson in Kindness

Eliza Byard | Posted 03.20.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: Lgbt, Name-Calling, Education, Children, No Name Calling Week, Bullying, Curriculum, Teachers, Glsen, Students, School Bullying, Parents, Video, Gay Voices News
Eliza Byard

When addressing school climate issues in education reform, it is far too easy to focus exclusively on the negative, the bias, the bullying, the violence we all agree must end.

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Words Matter! Using Kid's Books to Celebrate No Name-Calling Week at School and at Home

Signe Whitson | Posted 03.19.2013 | Home
Read More: Friendship, Relational Aggression, No Name Calling Week, Bullying, Bullying in School, Bullies, Female Friendships, School Bullying, Home News
Signe Whitson

Turns out that while sticks and stones can break your bones, words, too, can really hurt. In honor of proving that out-of-date childhood adage incorrect, the week of January 21st-25th has been set aside as No Name Calling Week.

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No Name-Calling Week: A Way To Stop School Bullying

The Huffington Post | Sarah H. Lee | Posted 01.27.2012 | Parents
Read More: Family Dinner Download, Anti Bullying in Schools, Family Dinner Table Talk, No Name Calling Week, Stop School Bullying, Dinner Download, Child Bullying, Kids and Bullying, Glsen, No Name Calling, School Bullying, Parents News

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: To whoever first started chanting, "Sticks and stones may break my ...

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Are The Boy Scouts Of America Becoming More LGBT-Friendly?

Posted 01.24.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: Gay Bullying, Video, Gay Rights, No Name Calling Week, Boy Scouts of America, Bullying, Boy Scouts, Lgbt Bullying, LGBT Rights, No Name Calling, Anti-Gay Bullying, Gay Voices News

Are the Boy Scouts of America turning over a new, more accepting leaf? That will likely be the question on many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgen...

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Words Matter! Using Kids' Books to Celebrate No Name-Calling Week at Home

Signe Whitson | Posted 03.21.2012 | Parents
Read More: Bullying in Schools, Bullying in School, Girl Bullying, Parenting, No Name Calling Week, Bullying, Parents News
Signe Whitson

Turns out that while sticks and stones can break your bones, words, too, can really hurt you. In honor of proving that out-of-date childhood adage incorrect, the week of Jan. 23-27 has been set aside as No Name-Calling Week in schools across the country.

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