I worry about today’s generation. Whether you know them as “Generation Z” or “iGen,” they are the people born after 1995 who have grown up with their own smartphones and social media accounts. As a Gen-Xer, I am two generations removed from these young people, and I struggle to understand and identify with them. Am […]
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Bullying and alcohol abuse were the norm for an average teenager at the little prairie school where I used to teach. In order to combat these rampant problems along with a growing drug subculture, my school had become involved with STAND, Students Taking A New Direction, a nationally-sponsored drug and alcohol prevention program that partnered
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I put myself out there and risked criticism when I exposed my life as a victim of bullying in “An Open Letter to my Eighth Grade Self,” but little did I know the impact that letter would have on those who read it, which got me thinking. I have a friend whose daughter, whom I’ll
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