We all know that kids need to develop resiliency and confidence. To just tell them to stand up for yourself or face your fears doesn't help. Here are 10 concrete things that kids need to do if they are being bullied. I have included a link for Strengthening The Victim Of Bullying (online course) below.

Strengthening The Victims Of Bullying

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How can we help kids to stop paying attention to negative comments and those negative thoughts that creep into their head. Listen up as Jim gives you a science lesson on The brain's  Reticular Activating System.

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Originally Aired May 4, 2019

Freedom of speech is not the freedom to say what you want but the wisdom to say what you ought. Always remember you can’t yell fire in Macy’s. Unless of course there’s a fire.

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I met this compelling young man at the NJEA convention on November 8th of this year. I was so taken by his passion and commitment that I had to have him on Anti Bullying 101. Ikechukwu Onyema (EK) is a science teacher in East Orange, NJ. He is also a co-founder of MAPSO Freedom School, a non-profit committed to educational justice. Alongside his career as an educator, he is an avid writer. When you listen to this interview you will be inspired and realize the importance of always giving your personal best. 

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What qualities would any student need if they were going live in the real world right now as adults? I’m talking about the basics, but, these behaviors are so important to the lifelong success of any individual. What are the five behaviors that I discovered? When I started to enforce the rules around these behaviors things started to change and change quickly.

I am introducing to you The Anti Bullying Series. If you listened to this episode you know what I am referring to. I ask that you click the link below NOW and take the time to ask yourself; Am I doing my best to help put an end to bullying? We all can do more. Click on the link below. 

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As my loyal listeners use the discount code SERIES and you will receive a 50% discount on the entire package. 

Another school shooting in California. Comments by officials refer to the perpetrator as a trouble young man. Why are we missing this as professionals. We can't go on allowing kids to be rude, discourteous, and disrespectful at a young age because they will transform as they get older into troubled teens and adults. Listen to how disrespect was handled 50 years ago and why we have to begin to stop the compromises and demand respect and compliance from our children. If not this intergenerational problem will only get worse. 

As a young boy I always had a fear of authority. I don’t mean the police, I mean adults other than my parents. There was always some authority figure who was correcting me in the community or in school. Since my father was the owner of a pretty popular bar in a very small town, I was well known in the town, and I knew a lot of adults. If I was involved in some stupid behavior on one side of town my parents found out through the grapevine very quickly. My parents never questioned the guy who told them about my behavior, regardless of whether or not he was drunk. They would always question me, because I was the kid, and they believed the adult. It always seemed like I was found out one way or another.

The other thing that never failed was if I was told not to do something and I disobeyed, something bad always happened to me as a result. I don’t mean like getting yelled at by my father; I mean something really bad would happen that was a direct consequence of my rebellious attitude. Listen in and find out some real consequences for failing to understand the purpose of authority.

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I’ve been fighting this problem for over 40 years, and truthfully I just want it to go away but I know it won’t. My heart breaks every time I hear of another bullying related incident that had tragic results. Teachers need help and guidance in dealing with this issue and I’ve put together a program that I believe will truly make a difference.

The Anti Bullying Boot Camp provides a series of five courses that will help transform you and your school by using a radical approach to teaching respect and encouraging responsibility. Each course focuses on key elements that will produce profound results. With every great break through there has to be a break with.​​ These courses break with traditional methods of dealing with bullying and other bullying related behaviors to provide the tools for permanent help not temporary relief.

This is a video converted into a podcast. At the conclusion of the podcast I encourage the listener to click on the link. Remember if you purchase the boot camp program be sure to use the discount code CAMP and you will save over $220. Here is the link to the product. 

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If you have been listening to this podcast you know who I am but, in case you forgot my name is Jim Burns. This is my forty third year in education. I’ve worked as a teacher, administrator and now a college instructor. The one thing that I hear teachers talk about all the time is what do we do with kids who are just plain unmotivated and give the impression that they just don’t care.

There is a direct relationship between motivation and discipline. The hard to motivate are often hard to discipline and teachers are becoming increasingly more frustrated and keep asking what do we do with students who are not prepared, don’t care, won’t work, are passive aggressive and are on track for failure as adults. Finding the right tools and strategies to increase motivation can solve a host of behavior problems and there are many things educators can do to reawaken motivation in students who have lost interest and perhaps hope. The course Motivating Disaffected and Hard to Handle Students will help teachers develop techniques that build respect, increase responsibility, and develop greater compliance in students who are uncooperative and hard to handle. It will help teachers overcome the strong emotional frustration that saps their energy and ultimately leads to burnout.

By taking this online course you’ll

· Learn the symptoms of difficult students and intervention plans that work

· Build respect and rapport with your most difficult students

· Understand why students don’t care

· Develop language that confronts without condemning

· Break through the emotional wall of your students and increase motivation and responsibility

· Strengthen relationships with even your most difficult students

This course will change the way you handle students who are unmotivated and will make a difference in how they view life moving forward. To take the course click on the link at the end of this video. (It says at the end of the video in the podcast but I am providing the link for the course here.) Also just for listening you get a FREE Book.  

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