Stop Bullying with Boys Town
This week I am featuring a great resource who can help you or someone else who is currently dealing with bullying. It is the Stop Bullying with Boys Town webpage and Boys Town Crisis Hotline. What is Boys Town? Boys…
Need help now? Call the Boys Town Hotline 800-448-3000
Sharon McAleer
Selma P. Verde Writes About both sides of Bullying
Whether you are a teen or an adult, bullying is a very important topic to discuss. Throughout this quarter, especially in October, we have been focusing on it during National Bullying Prevention Month. Our featured author this month is our…
How to deal with being a target of a bully
With October being Bullying Prevention Month, for this week’s blog, I will focus on an issue which has and still does affect teenagers, bullying. Today we are going to talk about what it means to be the target of a…
Selma’s Monthly News – October 2023
Welcome to Selma’s Monthly News for October! Monthly News posts Selma P. Verde is Sharon’s (the owner and visionary of Mentoring A Dream) penname. She is the author of The Way Series, a coming-of-age series of teen and young adult…
Talk about Peer Pressure
This quarter, we explored our quarterly theme, Peer Pressure, by talking about confidence and choices, consequences of giving into peer pressure and the effect of teen cliques and back to school. Let’s take a look at some of the things…
Rosalind Wiseman talks about teens
This month’s featured author is Rosalind Wiseman. She is an internationally recognized author and expert on children, parenting, social justice, and ethical leadership. She has written two amazing books, one about boys and one about girls, that help us to…
How do teen cliques create peer pressure?
With teens and young adults getting back to school, the rise of the teen cliques and the pressures they apply to students starts up again. How do teen cliques create peer pressure? Let’s start off talking about what a clique…
Selma’s Monthly News – September 2023
Welcome to Selma’s Monthly News for September! And Happy Labor Day! Monthly News posts Selma P. Verde is Sharon’s (the owner and visionary of Mentoring A Dream) penname. She is the author of The Way Series, a coming-of-age series of…
Peer Pressure and your teen’s attention to it
As we talk more about peer pressure, I continue to look for resources on how we can help the teens in our life deal with it. It isn’t something that will just go away. We all deal with pressure from…
Center for Parent and Teen Communication
This month’s featured resource is the Center for Parent and Teen Communication. It is an organization which is a part of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Their mission is to help parents raise teens…