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Father goes to White House to fight bullies in son's honor
The President and the First Lady are taking on bullies at the White House Anti-Bullying Summit Thursday. The summit will bring experts, Administration officials and the First Family together to address bullying in schools.
Bullying affects approximately one-third of all school-aged children each year and Kirk Smalley knows this first-hand; his 11 year-old son Ty was a victim of bullying and committed suicide in May, 2010. Since his son's death, Smalley has been speaking to students across the country, sharing his son's tragic story in hopes of bringing an end to bullying.
Kirk Smalley will be at the White House Anti-Bullying Summit Thursday and will be meeting with the President and First Lady. Smalley talks to T.J. Holmes about his son's story and his mission.
"Glee" star and Special Olympics fight bullying of special needs students
According to the British Journal of Learning Support, 60% of students with special needs reported being bullied compared to 25% of the general student population.
But Lauren Potter, the actress who plays Becky Jackson on "Glee", and Timothy Shriver, Chairman and CEO of the Special Olympics, are teaming up to try to stop bullying of kids with special needs. The Special Olympics, AbilityPath.org and Best Buddies are launching "Disable Bullying", a campaign designed to engage policymakers, parents and educators to stop such behavior. Potter and Shriver talk to CNN's T.J. Holmes about their new campaign.
Empowering Our Kids: Stopping bullies before they start
Parents and educators are always on the lookout for new ways to address the problem of bullying. What if there were a way to keep kids from becoming bullies in the first place?
For more than 10 years, a program in Canada has been doing just that. And the simple way they’re doing it might surprise you.
In part two of our series "Empowering Our Kids," American Morning's Kiran Chetry went to Toronto, Ontario, to look at the program, called "Roots of Empathy," and see how it’s working.
Empowering our kids: Teaching kids to combat bullying
How do you combat bullying? It's a question that a lot of parents and schools are grappling with. In the first part of our series, Empowering our Kids, we take a look at a program started by two teachers who noticed that the kids getting bullied often lacked the social skills to know how to deal with it. So they're trying to give these kids the tools they need to stand up for themselves.
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