Posted on 18 December 2012. Tags: African-American, ask Dr. O, AskDrO.com, behavior, black, bullying, depression, FL, Jacksonville, law, pregnancy, public school, School, tumor
How would you feel if your child’s school called you in to discuss pregnancy rumors about your 11 year old daughter? Shock would be understandable, then possible denial because you know it couldn’t possibly be your pre-teen daughter who’s having sex. It happens everyday but in this case it wasn’t so black and white. An [...]
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Posted on 20 November 2011. Tags: 7 year old obesity book, bullying, childhood obesity book, Family, laniya bailey, not fat because i wanna be, obesity, overweight kids, Parenting, School, teasing
A 7-year-old girl is joining in the fight against bullying. Laniya Bailey published a book detailing her struggles with weight gain and the issues she faced with bullies. From EurWeb: After rapidly gaining weight when she was just three, her parents consulted her pediatrician and put little LaNiyah on a strict diet. When she continued to gain [...]
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Posted on 18 October 2011. Tags: 14 year old girl twitter, amber cole, askdro, bullying, child pornography, cyber bullying, depression, mental health, online video, Suicide, twitter topics
It’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. On Sunday night a 14-year-old girl became the subject of a WORLDWIDE trending topic after a lewd video was posted to the popular social networking website, Twitter. I’ll refrain from identifying the girl or the trending topics because of her age (yes, if you watched the [...]
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Posted in Discussion, Enough Said!, Female Depression, Mental Health, Newsworthy, Parenting, Relationships, School, Suicide, Top Featured, Treatments, What's Hot
Posted on 06 October 2011. Tags: 50 Cent, 50 cents new book, bullying, bullying 50 cent, butterball, child books, curtis jackson, playground, playground boo, young adult novels
Rapper and record-label executive 50 Cent is adding Young Adult author to his rooster. Curtis Jackson is tackling bullying in his new book Playground: The Mostly True Story Of A Former Bully. The semi-autobiographical story follows Butterball, a 13-year-old reformed bully. Check out the introduction below: I’ll be the first to admit that not everything [...]
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Posted on 26 May 2011. Tags: 8 year old bullying, 8 year old suicide, bullying, death, education, Family, Parenting, relationships, School, tori blair suicide, tori blair wilson
An eight-year-old girl found dead in the woods near her home had hanged herself after being bullied, police have said. The body of little Tori Blair Wilson was discovered just 80 yards from her house near Palestine, East Texas, after she went missing from a neighborhood barbecue. Following a weeks-long investigation, an autopsy has now [...]
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Posted in Discussion, Education, Enough Said!, Family, Female Depression, law, Male Depression, Mental Health, Newsworthy, Parenting, Relationships, School, Suicide, What's Hot
Posted on 17 April 2011. Tags: abc, bullying, child plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery shaw, good morning america, Parenting, plastic surgery 7, samantha plastic surgery, samantha shaw, samantha shaw cosmetic surgery, self-esteem, self-worth, teasing
Mom Lets 7-Year-Old Get Plastic Surgery To Prevent Bullying Just when I thought I heard it all! A mother let her daughter undergo an ELECTIVE surgery, to PREVENT her daughter from being bullied. Now, the child has yet to be teased, but in an effort to make sure that it DID NOT happen they had [...]
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