Monthly Archives: September, 2005
Martha Stewart Mean?
Check out the latest bit on my newest book: Yesterday’s mean girls, today’s drama queens keep their sting Boston Herald – United States “I’m sorry, but you just don’t fit in” Ouch. But that catch phrase cements author Cheryl Dellasega’s theory: that the nastiness of girls – bullying, gossiping, back-stabbing and aggression – isn’t left [...]
The Nature of Rumors
Rumors are insidious. They can develop a life and momentum of their own, and a bad reputation can follow you in your old circle or proceed you before you enter a new one. It can freeze you in time. A bad reputation becomes other people’s negative expectations, a filter through which others see you. Sometimes, [...]
The Assertive Bitch?
Lately, the “b” word has been on my radar screen, thanks to some interesting discussions about “mean women.” All too often, it seems that assertiveness gets confused with aggression and vice versa–perhaps because feminists of the previous decade rebelled so strongly against passivity. Whatever the reason, there seems to be such misunderstanding about female behavior [...]
www.bullyfreekids.com
Bully Free Kids or another title for the same website Bully Free Living is a site worth exploring. Here’s their description: Offers bully free and human behavior advice on how to prevent you or your children from becoming the victim of a bully. Build self-esteem and self-confidence in you and your children. I get their [...]
Healing the Abuse – Knowledge
The title of the web home page is “Healing the Abuse of Relational Aggression”. So what does that mean? I don’t have a specific steps procedure for healing, because it’s hard to outline something that is so uniquely personal to each individual. However, there are certain principles that do seem to show up on every [...]
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