North Shore Unitarian Church, 2100 Half Day Rd., Bannockburn
12:30 p.m.
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From the playground to Cyberspace, bullying in 2010 is taking on new forms.  Learn how the internet has expanded the avenues kids use to target their victims. Children as young as third grade have discovered the the web as a new platform for intimidation.  Sexting, Facebook, texting, IM’s, Skype, My Space, YouTube, chat rooms, tweeting, and twittering are the new weapons of the bully.  It’s the deadliest combination going: bullies who get what they want from their target, bullied kids who are afraid to tell, bystanders who watch, participate, or look away, and adults who see the incidents as simply teasing and a normal part of childhood.  Barbara Coloroso will teach us how to raise ethical kids who can navigate today’s problems and relationship challenges.

Barbara Coloroso is an international bestselling author and for the past 38 years an internationally recognized speaker and consultant on parenting, teaching, school discipline, positive school climate, bullying, grieving, nonviolent conflict resolution and restorative justice.  
    She has appeared on Oprah, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and NPR and has been featured in the New York Times, Time, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, and other national and international publications.

Her uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through her years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field-tested through her experiences as a classroom teacher, laboratory school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children.