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“Now I know how to protect myself from cyberbullying!” Please donate to Kidpower for Bullying Prevention Month
"Can you imagine someone making a Facebook page titled "I HATE..." with your name, and then having hundreds of people 'like' it?" "It was awful. I was angry, scared, sick to my...
Stop Cyberbullying in “Pediatric Safety”
Cyberbullying is everywhere in the news today, the dark side to social media that creates misery for countless children and adults. Like any form of bullying, cyberbullying can poison someone’s joy in life, reputation, and well being. Teaching digital citizenship can be a powerful solution to cyberbullying. Just as an antidote is a substance that can counteract a form of poisoning, responsible digital citizenship can provide an antidote to cyberbullying.
3 Actions We Can Take NOW to Protect Kids from Bullying
Bullying is an emergency that requires urgent action. Kidpower International provides immediate solutions that parents, teachers, and other adults can...
“Now I’m not afraid of recess!” Please donate to Kidpower for Bullying Prevention Month
"Now I'm not afraid of recess!" Thanks for Kidpower Supporters like you, parents can now worry less about their children's safety! "Avery’s worst day? When kids switched off his...
“NOW we know how to handle cyberbullying!” Please donate to Kidpower for Bullying Prevention Month
"Now we know how to handle cyberbully!" Thanks for Kidpower Supporters like you, we know how to help our child be safe online. Every family needs these skills! "Trolling,...
For Bullying Prevention Month: 3 Tips To Protect Kids From Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying can be devastating. For Bullying Prevention Month this October, Kidpower International provides essential ways parents, teachers, and youth advocates can help kids learn how to cope with electronic aggression.
Hazing 5 Smart Ways to Protect Yourself
As recent news stories make painfully clear, hazing has caused humiliation, trauma, injuries, and deaths, damaging and destroying too many young lives. Although hazing rituals are intended to create...
Free resources to keep kids safe 4 important steps to protect and empower young people
In today’s troubled times, more than ever, all children need to know that they can turn to and trust an adult for help. As part of September’s Child Protection Advocacy Month, Kidpower International is sharing four important steps plus free resources that can make a lasting difference in a child’s life and help to transform the fear of bullying, violence, and abuse into a future of lifelong safety and success for today’s youth.
When Disaster Strikes: Safety Comes From Inside Ourselves
Our hearts go out to each person whose life is being devastated by Hurricane Harvey - and we are filled with gratitude for each person who is helping to...
“I don’t want to upset my child!” How to talk about safety with highly sensitive kids
Many people expressed appreciation for our blog post about what adults need to know to protect their kids from sexual abuse - and what our kids need to know to stay safe. One mother...
What Does a Child Abuser Look Like?
Once a friend asked me, ” What does a child abuser look like?”
“I wish I had an easy answer to that question,” I said. …
As adults, we need to be prepared to stay connected with our children and know who the people responsible for their safety are and what they are doing. We must ask questions and speak up anytime we have a concern, regardless of discomfort or worries we might have.
Without going into the details about sexual abuse, here is what our kids need to know:
To Love, Honor, and Disobey In Celebration of Our 43rd Wedding Anniversary
Without my husband Ed’s constant support of the organizational “child” I brought into our home and lives 28 years ago, there would be no Kidpower! And, since so many of you wrote about my...
Full Circle Safety Course for K-12 Educators to Protect Students From Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking
"I have worked as a crisis-response consultant to help over a dozen schools and youth-serving organizations to recover after they have had to face a sexual abuse case in their...
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week – FREE thank-you gift for educators!
In a school year like no other, all of us at Kidpower are grateful to the many educators who are giving so much time, energy, and caring to provide others with a sense of safety,...
Protecting Our Kids From Sexual Abuse Without Scaring Them – Free Workshops and FAQs
Part of the inspiration that led to Kidpower came from stories I heard from adults that started with the words, 'IF ONLY...' If ONLY, when my youth group leader dropped all the kids off...