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Stay up to date with our most recent news and resources!
Walk In Another’s Shoes – Teens Speak Out Against Bullying
Our amazing Teen Advisory Board from Kidpower of Colorado Springs has created a very moving, 5-minute video about bullying that is likely to break your heart and inspire you to action. Seeing the faces and hearing the voices of these exceptional young people stating what bullying is…
Kidpower’s new e-book about Bullying is almost done!
We are putting the final touches on our new e-book, Bullying – What Adults Need to Know and Do to Keep Kids Safe and it will be available next March.
Bullying Can Become an Opportunity to Grow
Bullying can lead to great growth – as well as causing big problems. With clear boundaries, better skills, and strong support, everyone involved can learn what to do, as well as what to not do.
Media Messages About Bullying and Harassment
I’ll never forget when my son, many years before Gavin de Becker pointed this out in The Gift of Fear, watched the movie The Graduate and said in a horrified voice, “You told me this was a funny movie, but he’s stalking her, Mom!”
Kidpower Bullying Solutions – Teaching Children to Use Their Inborn “Kidpower” Safely and Well
Kids are born with the power to think, make noise, and move. They have it from the moment they start breathing, and the power belongs to them. As adults, we can help them learn to use that power well and responsibly. If we choose to let them just figure it out on their own, we can expect them to cause…
ABC News Now- Beyond “Stranger Danger” – 6 Key Points for Teaching Child Safety
Kidpower North Carolina Center Director, Amy Tiemann, Ph.D., did an excellent interview on ABC News Now, Parenting with Ann Pleshette Murphy about how to teach children to be safe with strangers – and with people they know.
Every Child Counts – So Please Teach Them Skills
An article titled “Child-abduction study finds capable kids are their own best defense” in the September 5 on-line edition of the Washington Post describes a recent study of 4,200 kidnapping attempts by non-family members.
Under-Reported School Violence – Kidpower Solutions and Skills
This recent Education Week News commentary describes the tremendous under-reporting of levels of school violence in the US. My guess is that this might be true in other countries as well.
Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist
Getting stuck in the details of what’s lacking and forever measuring ourselves against some impossible standard can diminish our joy and ability to keep the big picture of what we truly most want to accomplish in mind.
Protecting Against Sexual Assault Without Blaming the Victims – Kidpower Response to London “Wake Up to Rape” Study
When I was a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, the woman’s movement was just beginning to build understanding that sexual assaults were NOT the woman’s fault. Even if women were involved, as I was, in working on social justice issues, most of us believed that we only had ourselves were to blame if a man tried to harass or rape us.
Kidpower Self-Defense Strategy: Make Being Nice a Decision, Not an Automatic Habit
During our Fullpower and Teenpower self-defense workshops for adults and teens, we have students practice setting boundaries in role-plays about someone approaching them for help on the street.
Teaching Children About Persistence
Both children and adults have more power when they understand the meaning of powerful words, like persistence. Adults can help children learn to use their persistence by the following ways.
I used to think I didn’t have any power…
Kidpower helped Ellen give her kids the skills she had lacked as a child… “I used to think I didn't have any power. A lot of unfortunate things happened to me all the way up...
“Now I feel safe walking in my neighborhood”
Here is how vulnerable seniors learned to protect themselves from danger… In a workshop for elderly people in a high-crime neighborhood, the participants described the dangers they...
Kidpower skills saved my husband’s life
This is just one example of how Kidpower saves lives… “Several years ago, my husband Jeff used his Kidpower skills during a solo trip abroad when someone tried to attack and...