"My heart is breaking for parents all over this country. For Hope Witsell's parents, for Asher Brown's, for Tyler Clementi's, and so many more whose names we don't know.
Bullying has always existed. We know this. It's Darwinian: survival of the fittest. But high school is hard enough to survive without worrying that someone is going to beat the everliving snot out of you, or go on Facebook to post awful pictures of you from a party. It used to be that the bullied kids occasionally came home with a bloodied nose or a ripped shirt. Now parents are finding them hanging in their own closets, shamed into killing themselves by their peers.
I was bullied terribly as a pre-teen and teenager. When Phoebe Prince took her own life, I wrote my story for the very first time. It's an ugly part of my past, but sometimes it's important to look at all the wrongs in the world so that we can make it right. Unfortunately, I don't think the kids who bully read the Huffington Post, but maybe you're the parent of a teen and you don't really know if your kid is a bully. Maybe you yourself were a bully, and you've passed that on to your kid. I believe bullying begins at home: a happy kid in a loving family probably won't go to school and mercilessly tease another student."
Please read the full story at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tara-dublin/a-survivor-of-bullying-sp_b_754457.html
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