• For Our Daughters
  • Backstabber
    This is a song I wrote from my personal experience with relational aggression.

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  • Double Dragon

    The Double Dragon is an appropriate symbol for the topic of covert aggression and empowerment - two heads coming out of one body.

    For in truth, the dragons exist one within the other, as both aggression and empowerment exist within each person.

    Relational aggression isn't so much about a specific person, a "bitch" we love to hate, as much as a state of mind; a set of choices we all can make.

    The possibility for their manifestation exists in every person. Some people do play the role of aggressor as opposed to target, but to become an aggressor is only a choice away for each one of us.

    Be willing then, to see yourself, if only in potential, in both roles - aggressor and target. Doing so will give you insight and understanding, and with that, true empowerment.

    Demian Yumei,
    ~"DreamSinger"

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Interventions and Solutions

Published By Demian Yumei On Thursday, July 27th 2006. Under Resources    
Interventions and Solutions
I was doing a google search on how to handle relational aggression, and found another article Cheryl wrote. A good number of specific suggestions. http://www.clubmom.com/display/253394 ... Read More

Thrilled to be Tough

Published By Cheryl Dellasega On Thursday, July 20th 2006. Under Cheryl Dellasega, Guest Authors    
Thrilled to be Tough
Just reviewed yet another research report that showed how often boys admit (and are even proud of) being considered a bullying type of person and how rarely girls will confess to the same. With Simon Baer Cohn's book The Essential Difference" fresh in my mind, it's shouldn't be ... Read More

Danish Dreams

Published By Cheryl Dellasega On Friday, July 14th 2006. Under Cheryl Dellasega, Guest Authors    
Danish Dreams
As I mentioned in an earlier post, this past year involved many exciting projects for me. One in particular I'd like to share here was done in conjunction with Anne Marino, a social worker/actress/mom/community mobilizer/incredible gal pal I've known for several years. We had a group of middle school girls ... Read More

Snow White and Other Wicked Mothers

Published By Cheryl Dellasega On Tuesday, July 11th 2006. Under Cheryl Dellasega, Guest Authors, Resources    
Snow White and Other Wicked Mothers
It's was interesting to read Demian's last post, because the writing of my newest book just led me to revisit how women are portrayed in fairy tales. This is a well studied subject in feminist literature, but as I paged through the beautifully illustrated tales I read my own children, ... Read More

“Sympathy for the devil”

Published By Demian Yumei On Thursday, July 6th 2006. Under Demian's Articles    
“Sympathy for the devil”
That's the title of Maureen Dowd's editorial of the New York Times. Unfortunately, you have to purchase the right to read it online, so if you don't buy, you'll only be able to read the first 50 words. My local paper, York Daily Record, carries her column, so I was ... Read More