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This web page gives you the chance to look at some important stuff where you want to - in private! These IT links let you see what is happening out there and find out about your teen life issues. You can make contact with others who have things to say about things you are thinking about - you know the stuff you want to find out more about or just talk. Maybe this will help you have a better teen life or see yourself in a new way or add value to your teen life. Maybe this will help you say what you really mean to someone special so they understand you and you understand them.
Today is the next big day in your big life - Peace.

TeenTouch

Contact TeenTouch at 783-1116
in rural Manitoba toll free 1-800-563-8336.
This is a Manitoba place where you can phone to talk to someone
or use the internet to read about topics

You can see that you have some things to go for in Teentouch.
Who does know all the answers anyways! Just get first things - first in life.

Klinic

Klinic Community Health Centre
870 Portage Ave.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3G 0P1
(204) 784-4090

Klinic has some special web pages called Teen Talk , Youth Crisis and Information Lines and a Teen Clinic. There is a special page for Teen Talk school workshops

786-8686 24 hour Distress and Crisis Line

786-8631 24 hour Sexual Assault Crisis Line

786-8686 24 hour Crisis / Suicide Line

MayoClinic.com

MayoClinic main page has a lot of helpful, trustworthy, information online.
Look at the Condition Centers, Healthy Living Centers, or 'Take charge of your Health' or do a search of the site. If you're into it, you can become a registered user and select MayoClinic.com as your personal health management resource. A great IT resource to make life healthier.
This is a web site only and can not be reached by telephone.

Mayo.edu is another helpful IT resource.
Check out their Internet Health and Medical resources that has many links for specialized information. Also, go for the links to Men's health, Women's health and Children's health.

MedicalEdge is a support to the CKY - TV news feature and has a topic archive.

Sexuality and the Reproduction Cycle

The Visible Embryo creative visual presentation on the developmental stages of an embryo to birth.

Think Again - a special personal website for looking at the issues of teen pregnancy, protection and prevention.
If you think you know it all, how many Manitoba teenagers become pregnant each day? What is you plan?
What are your decisions?
Think again - is it based on what you know or what you feel?
Think again to feel better about your decisions you need to make for yourself.
Think again about your plan before you act and after the fact.

The Pill - PBS American Experience aired March 22, 2004 on PBS. This program looks at the development of the pill -- a drug that arguably has had a greater impact on American culture than any other drug in the nation's history. Log on and take the pill virtually to see its effects on women's bodies. There is a Teachers' Guide.

Life's Greatest Miracle - PBS companion web link for the NOVA TV program that includes a Teacher's Guide, Windows on the Womb, How Cells Divide, How Sex is Determined, and Great Expectations.

Teenage Life - Growth, Development, and Behavior

Inside the Teenager Brain - PBS Frontline web site for the January 2004 program that includes Do Your Teens Seem Like Aliens?, The Teen Brain is a Work in Progress, What Can Science Tell Us, and Watch the Full Program Online.

Bullying

CBC.ca/bully

Bullies, like the poor – like teenage zits – have been part of life. Recently there are more news about incidents and the victims as the incidents are bloodier and terrifying. No longer is it just a hit or a knee or a bloodied nose or black eye at school; now there are the use of guns, knives, murders and suicides - in Canadian schools and communities!

Recently, CBC AM radio and The National presented documentaries on school bullies. The National program aired over 2 evenings in March, 2001 and scoped the scene at a Manitoba and British Columbia school. It has links to other organizations.

The link to the radio program Schoolyard Bullies, December 14, 2000, gives a serious look at the problem. Rex Murphy had a comment on this topic with the Rex Murphy's introduction to the September 5, 1999 program: "How serious is school bullying? What can, and should be done about it?".

The CBC National provides Web Links for Bullying.org, Bully Busters, Safe Child, and for reading on the topic, go to York University, Lamarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution on the topic of Bullies and Victimization.

On October 10, 2002, CBC aired Cyber-bullying, a program that portrays the responses of David.

On November 16, 2002, CBC National News aired "CBC News- Authorities promise action after bullying reported" a report of Bullying at an elementary school in Gladstone, Manitoba. "Shipman says a bully-proofing program began two years ago after another rash of bullying incidents." Link to the media report .

Bullying - Barbara Coloroso

Barbara Coloroso

Welcome to kids are worth it!

November, 2002 - Kelvin High School, Winnipeg hosts Barbara Coloroso at a conference on Breaking the Cycle of Violence.
Click here for a summary of the concepts in the book "The Bully, The Bullied and The Bystander."

Handout from Barbara's new book - a very good document to break the ice on the topic! It covers 'the bully', 'the bullied', 'the bystander', teasing/taunting, antidotes to bullying, what to do and not to do, how to report and caring schools.

About Barbara Coloroso

CTV.ca - Canadian Television's Web Destination

CTV.ca - Canada AM - Parenting

The Globe and Mail- Family Matters - Barbara Coloroso

Barbara Coloroso - Penguin Books

Coloroso, Barbara. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

Canadian Living Television- Show 200

ParentingResourcesDescrip

Barbara Coloroso CBC TV transcript on the topic of 'discipline' and Barbara’s Essential Tools in Discipline – The Three Rs

Basics of Bullying - by Scott Willis

Child Management>Bullying and Contempt - New Path

McNally Robinson Booksellers - Featured Books

Bullying - additional resources

1. Dr. Michele Borba - Building Moral Intelligence
http://www.MicheleBorba.com
A very powerful web site with strategies to develop Moral Intelligence.
The Step-By-Step Plan to Building Moral Intelligence

The Moral Intelligence Framework	The Seven Essential Virtues
1st Tier	Empathy
1st Tier	Conscience
1st Tier	Self-Control
2nd Tier	Respect
2nd Tier	Kindness
3rd Tier	Tolerance
3r Tier	Fairness

	10 Reasons Kids Need Moral IQ Kids can be taught "critical intelligence".
	Bully Signs What to do if you see signs of bullying in a child. Make sure the tips a child picks up from you on Moral Intelligence are the ones you want him to copy in their behavior.
	Bully Proofing Teaching self-control requires you to model self-control. There is a list of the six of the most successful strategies to help kids defend themselves.
	Anger Management Five methods for learning the virtue of self-control and stay calm.
	Safe Schools 9 ways to create safer schools.
	RAK - Why Teach Kindness? from the RAK - Random Acts of Kindness web site, read about many RAK ideas for school subject application in Primary Grades. help is offered with a 32 page teacher guide, a 45 page activity guide, lesson plans for middle and primary levels, and building a web site to post RAK activities.
	PBS - Helping a friend. When you observe something embarrassing happens to a friend, what is your reaction and what do you do or not do? Read what others said about their embarrassing times at Here's what others said.

2. Bullying Online - a UK site

	This has a main page at: http://www.bullying.co.uk/index.html
	Advice for parents is at: http://www.bullying.co.uk/parents/parentsl_advice.htm
	Advice for students is at: http://www.bullying.co.uk/children/pupil_advice.htm
	The Teacher resource page is at: http://www.bullying.co.uk/school/work_in_class.htm

3. Bully Beware - Action plan tips

	This is a Coquitlam, British Columbia web site at: http://www.bullybeware.com/tips.html
	The main page is at: http://www.bullybeware.com/index.html

4. Dont Laugh at Me http://www.dontlaugh.org/
Register online to receive free materials to use in your school. This program is currently used in some of the WSD schools.
Don't Laugh at Me (DLAM) a program for grades 2-5 and 6-8 develops safer, respectful and nurturing environments for children at school and in the classrooms. Based upon the premises that social and emotional learning (SEL) promotes academic success, the DLAM School Programs help build the skills, abilities and values that children need to become participating members of compassionate communities.

5. Canadian Living Magazine - selected readings

	Responding to bully behaviour by Jennifer Wells
	Understanding the social lives of children
	Banish bullying
	No More Bullies Oct. 2002. along with 'Raising Empathetic Kids' tips from Mary Gordon.

6. Family Education online - Ask an expert Expert Advice - click on the link and type in the word bully or bullying and read the suggested articles. This can open the discussion.

7. PBS -
From the "It's My Life" web pages, view the page 'Bullies: What is Bullying?' to look at topics like What Is Bullying?, Who's A Bully?, Who's A Target?, How To Handle It, Innocent Bystanders, Are You A Bully?, Bully-Free Zones, From the Mentors, and then try to Beat the Bully

8. Bulling Awareness Network (BAN)
The BAN website is an initiative of Child & Youth Friendly Ottawa and the Ottawa Anti-Bullying Coalition. BAN web pages are created and maintained by youth.

Personality and Character

Making Ethical Decisions from the Josephson Institute of Ethics, a series of web pages on topics such as Making Sense of Ethics, The Six Pillars of Character (Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, and Citizenship), and The Seven-Step Path to Better Decisions.

20 Healthy New Year's Resolutions for Kids from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Recipes

Barbeque

Cottage Life

Created March 19, 2002, revision date June 09, 2006

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