Bullying Prevention Week, Be the Prevention!

     Hello everyone! This week at Licking Valley Elementary they are celebrating "anti-bullying week". On Monday everyone is asked to wear green for "Go help a classmate, tell an adult if you see bullying"/ Tuesday everyone is being asked to wear red to "Stop bullying now!". Wednesday everyone is being asked to wear yellow "Caution bullies that there are people ready to report incidents of bullying". Thursday is wear black for "Black out name calling!". Friday is school spirit day to remind us that "we are a team against bullying".
    
      This is such an easy way to make a great impact and something we can all easily do! Talk to people and share this with everyone so we can help out the elementary. Make this week extra "anti-bully" and step up to the plate and participate!
       

     This blog is all about bullying prevention. I need your help to prevent it. You guys are doing a great job at sharing my links and being the difference! :)  Please share this link and, "http://hnoelsmith.blogspot.com/2013/01/need-prayer.html" and, "http://hnoelsmith.blogspot.com/2013/01/bully-proof.html" and, "http://hnoelsmith.blogspot.com/2013/01/never-singled-out.html"  on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, email, tell people, just please share it! Help be the difference, be sure to give every single person you see today or talk to today a compliment. Make a difference to today. Speak up, I am.

Need a Prayer?

     Good evening everyone! Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend so far :) I've gotten a little bit of feedback form my last post which was great but I'd love to have more! If you're going through a little rough patch or maybe even a big rough patch or know someone who could just use a prayer, just let me know! A prayer can do a lot and I'd love to help. Like I said in my previous post, if you need anything at all, email me at "haleysmith75@gmail.com". 

     

          This blog is all about bullying prevention. I need your help to prevent it. You guys are doing a great job at sharing my links and being the difference! :)  Please share this link and "http://hnoelsmith.blogspot.com/2013/01/bully-proof.html" and also, "http://hnoelsmith.blogspot.com/2013/01/never-singled-out.html" on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, email, tell people, just please share it! Help be the difference, be sure to give every single person you see today or talk to today a compliment. Make a difference to today. Speak up, I am.

Never Singled Out

    Hey everyone! Hope you are all having a great week so far :) Sorry I haven't been updated like i had hoped. Don't let that stop you from checking up on my blogs though :) 
     
     I know a lot of people feel really alone when it comes to them being bullied. They feel singled out, hurt, upset, worthless, etc. Well I want you to know that you aren't and NEVER will be worthless and I never want you to feel left out, hurt, etc. Soooo, if you're comfortable with it, I think it would be awesome if you commented on this and shared your stories with everyone else. You can share how you overcame the situation(s) or you can even ask how to handle it. If you don't want to be public but you really want someone to talk to or someone to just listen to you I would absolutely love to help! You can send me an email at "haleysmith75@gmail.com" and I'll respond as quickly as I can. 
     
     Please know that you are NOT the only one. There are kids, teens and even adults that struggle through different types and stages of bullying all the time. Cutting, suicide, drugs, alcohol etc. is not the answer! It will never be the answer no matter what anyone says. I know for sure there is at lease one person that will help you in any way they can. Your school peer, brother, sister, mom, dad, aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa, cousin, teacher, boss, step parent, co-workers, there is always a possibility. If you don't have any of them to talk to then you have me to talk to for sure! I want to help in any I can. My heart strives to help all of you. Even if you find that you are the bully and you want help, go talk to someone, anyone! If there's things going on at home that are making you be this way towards others or if you feel like you'll get more attention by bullying others and you know it's wrong then try to help yourself and the person being bullied. Don't continue it. Maybe hang out with a different crowd? I know that's not easy, believe me, been there, done that. Not easy at all. But it can be done, you have complete control of yourself. This goes to the bullies and the bullied: don't let someone else push you around - be 100% control of you and only you. 
     

     Like I said, I would love to help. Share your stories, it will benefit so many people and it could also benefit yourself. Please share this link and "http://hnoelsmith.blogspot.com/2013/01/bully-proof.html" on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, email, tell people, just please share it! Help be the difference, be sure to give every single person you see today or talk to today a compliment. Make a difference to today. Speak up, I am.

Bully Proof

     Calling her ugly won't make you beautiful. Calling him gay won't make you straight. Calling him dumb won't make you smart. Calling her fake won't make you real. Please don't bully, it won't solve your own problems.
     
     Hey guys! So I am obviously doing a blog about bullying, psh, no kidding. I originally had this idea years ago to make a whole website on anti-bullying but never seemed to get around to it. Blogging seems to be more popular anyways so it all works out. Just so you all can basically grasp as to why I'm even doing this I'm going to share my own personal experience with bullying. Growing up in elementary school I always had a couple of best friends. There was a certain few who I always fought with but we somehow still considered each other as "best friends"... weird, I know. At a younger age my best friend was really gorgeous, funny,  flirty, and seemed to be great at everything. As we started getting a little older she started changing quite a bit. People were constantly laughing at her jokes, which in my opinion, weren't jokes. Her "jokes" consisted of mean and rude comments about other people, and I felt like one of her easiest targets, was me. I will admit I was not the cutest little kiddo out of the bunch. I had some pretty bright red hair, crooked teeth, and glasses with flowers on the side. I wasn't "fit" like all of the athletic kids were. She could come up with anything she possibly could to call me out on. Literally, anything. I remember when I had gotten new glasses and they were brown and shimmery. She was so desperate for the attention to where she made fun of me for having sparkles on my glasses. My winter coat, my shoes, my "non-makeup face", my freckles, my birthmark on the inside of my leg, and the freckle on my neck gave her every reason to bully me every single day. I came home pretty much every day dreading to go back to school the next day. It even got to the point to where they called in the school counselor to come and talk to our class. After the counselor talked to us, she took it all as a big joke and continued on and on with it. Fifth grade couldn't have ended sooner.
     
     I will say this - I got the very lucky end of the deal. Every time I turn around there's a story about a kid committing suicide because of how they felt after being bullied. The names, the rapes, the fights, the everything that happens to kids in our society is pathetic. It makes us look down right awful. I can't fathom what other kids go through. Let them make C's instead of B's. Let them ride a skateboard instead of hitting a baseball. Let them wear shorts that go down to their knee instead of having them ride up their crack. Let them be them and let you be you. We have all been hurt before, so think about how your actions will affect someone else.

     My heart is really craving to make a huge difference and I am beyond determined to do so. I could really use YOUR help though! Share this link with everyone you know. I'm going to try my best to make it possible for people who don't have internet to be able to read my blogs. Be sure to give every single person you see today or talk to today a compliment. Make a difference to today. Speak up, I am.