BRRC Blog Articles
6 Tips for Parents to Report Bullying
Adapted from Addressing and Preventing Classroom Bullying by Barbara Coloroso Because most bullying occurs under the radar, as parents and caregivers, you may be the first to know what is happening to your child. You can be allies in the effort to intervene. It is...
Bullying Legislation in Colorado – The Time is Now
Most experts will agree that bullying that occurs in schools is at an epidemic level. According to www.stopbullying.gov, between 1 in 4 and 1 in 3 U.S. students say they have been bullied at school. There is a litany of research telling us that a child who has been...
Bystander vs Upstander – Which Will You Be?
“In the end we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King Jr. Every child, in fact every adult has been a bystander at some time. A bystander is someone who witnesses bullying and doesn’t get involved. Being a...
Resiliency and Bullying
The New Oxford American Dictionary defines resilience as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness and the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.” Resilience and resiliency have become major buzzwords in mental...
Year One in the Books
We are officially in our second year of operation at Bullying Recovery Resource Center. We opened our doors in January of 2018 and obtained our 501 (c)(3) in 2017. Our work began in earnest in November 2017 after we settled a lawsuit we filed against my son’s former...
Listen With Love: How To Help a Child with Anxiety Prepare for the School Year
By Nora Hood July 30, 2018 Reposted with permission from Bullying Recovery “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ~Dorothy M. Neddermeyer Sometimes, the hardest thing about being a parent is allowing your child to be him...