As schools approach Christmas vacation, the ensuing break gives families a chance to reconnect over the holidays, open presents, wrestle with cousins in their Sunday best, and spread video game controllers out on the living room floor. But families should also set time aside across the country to talk to children about bullying, and to lay out real-life schoolyard survival skills.
The latest viral movement involves young Keaton Jones, a boy in Tennessee who has experienced brutal bullying for everything from his nose to how he talks. His mother recorded him crying in the car when she had to come pick him up from school, after again not wanting to face the cafeteria. In that moment, a shaking Keaton details his own experiences, as well as pleading for tolerance for other bullied children.
