Online stalker! This type of harassment is becoming more common. According to the Pew Research Center’s 2017 Online Harassment survey, 41% of Americans have been personally subjected to harassing behavior online, and an even larger number (66%) has witnessed these behaviors directed at others. The incredible popularity of social media sites and apps make it all too easy for people to stalk others online. If you’re being harassed by someone online, you might wonder: are they just a pest, or ...read more
4 Ways to Support Your LGBTQIA+ Child When They’re Facing a School Bully
LGBTQIA+ children and bullying. It’s easy for adults to forget what adolescence was like. The frustrations of figuring out the sometimes-foreign world around us combined with the cocktail of raging hormones that set our emotions off at the drop of a hat. Man, being a kid was hard! What can make an already-hard situation even harder for a young person is being “different” in some way. For young people who identify as LGBTQIA+, school bullying can be devastating. Rumors, gossip, name-calling, or ...read more