Shoot the Wounded is Lynn Dove’s debut novel. It is the first book in a trilogy about a fictional small town in southern Alberta. The novel opens with Leigh, Jake and their friends grieving at Ronnie’s funeral. We then go back in time to see Leigh and Ronnie’s friendship develop through middle school and fall apart […]
Cyberbullies Beware: The Avengers are Assembling
Teens today have been struggling with the dangers of cyberbulling and cyberbullies for years now. In fact, I even talked about this epidemic of meanness on the Koala Mom three years ago! As long as the internet has been active and kids have been logging on, they’ve suffered cruel, taunting messages, rumors spread about them […]
5 Tips for Dealing with Haters
As a blogger, sooner or later you will face negativity and angry, nasty, or rude comments from someone. Since yesterday was Pink Shirt Day, an initiative to end bullying, I thought it would be appropriate today to discuss dealing with these online haters. The first thing I’d like to say is that, unless you’re writing […]
Take a Stand Against Bullying with a #PinkShirtPromise
Today, I’m happy to be partnering with Shaw Communications to help spread the word about Safer Internet Day and their #PinkShirtPromise campaign. While this is a sponsored post, all opinions are always my own. Sometimes, we don’t do anything about a problem because we don’t know what to do. The problem can seem too big […]
Safer Internet Day and the #PinkShirtPromise
Today, I’m happy to be partnering with Shaw Communications to help spread the word about Safer Internet Day and their Pink Shirt Promise campaign. While this is a sponsored post, all opinions are always my own. Over the past few months, Sunshine has begun reading voraciously. She reads novels at home. Signs as we’re driving. […]
Bullies in the Playground
Last month while our friends from the Island were visiting, we took them to a couple of our favourite local parks. At the second park on the waterfront, we stopped for a few minutes to play in the playground after walking along the river for a bit. While the younger three children requested rides on […]
Bullying: It’s an Epidemic
She yelled taunts at me across the classroom. Her name-calling caused me to cringe in my seat and blush at her lewd innuendos. I looked up at my teacher to see if she would somehow reprimand my assailant, but she seemed as embarrassed and incapable as I was to stop the bullying in the classroom. […]
