37-FCS and Cyber Bullying

<p>I was talking to my own kids about this, my own daughters saying, you don't understand how much you mean to so many people. You might think, Oh, these are my core group of friends, and this is my family, and beyond that, I don't make an impact, or I don't make a difference. We have to figure out a way to get through to their brains that they make a difference. So I have been doing some research just within the last 24 hours, that I would like to share with you on this episode...</p><p><strong>SHOWNOTES:</strong></p><p>•  But I do go through my daughter's phones. And my youngest, my freshman age daughter, she's gotten her phone taken away from her quite a few times, just because the way she interacts through text messages to various friends, and then she doesn't have mental health issues per se, but she does struggle with self-esteem issues, that awareness factor and also, she's a type 1 diabetic, so that has another little layer added to it. (5:46)</p><p>•  They don't have the experience, they don't have the experience to say, this is hard right now, but I can get through it, tomorrow is a better day.  For a lot of these kids, my goodness, tomorrow hasn't been better, and they just see the same pattern from previous generations and they don't see a way out. We need to figure out how to give them a path to a way out, that's why we need these mental health classes. We also need to talk about these types of issues more often, have more authentic and transparent conversations with our students while in class, either face-to-face or virtual. (8:40)</p><p>• Because the grief cycle is a cycle, you don't know when it's going to crop up. You can be watching a movie, and then all of a sudden a movie can trigger that grief and you don't know where you're going to land, it's like Russian roulette. Honestly, you could start off in the angry session, or you could be just sad, so sad, but that's the thing about grief, you just don't know where you're going to land and when a trigger is going to come up. She still sees this c