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Bullying

3/21/2015

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Welcome back to Taylor Talks!

Tonight, I was working on the online half of a workshop that I need to complete for graduation and teacher certification. It's all about bullying and harassment in schools. While some of the facts I had learned about previously, some of the information was very interesting to learn.
One thing in particular that stuck out to me said something along the lines of the fact that a child who gets bullied or harassed has a brain that looks just like a child who is abused. There was something specific that showed up in brain scans and looked the same in both situations.

I think that harassment is a type of abuse, so that makes sense to me that the children would have similar impacts on their brains. When I try to educate people on the different reasons why a child may be placed into foster care, I try to tell them that it is not always just physical abuse. Mental or emotional abuse is just as bad for a child as being beaten.
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Making a child feel unwanted or unimportant is damaging to the child's self-esteem and overall quality of life. When we take in foster children, my mom always talks about how important it is to make the kids feel good about themselves and to praise them for even the smallest of accomplishments. You want children to have a high self-esteem and to feel like they can conquer the world. Children can do anything that they put their minds to; it's horrible if children are getting picked on and made to feel bad at school, but there are so many measures being put into place to prevent or resolve that issue. But children certainly shouldn't be getting harassed at home, where they should feel the most safe and secure. A parent's job is to build their child up, not tear them down. So when children are placed in foster care, it is even more important that foster parents make these children feel better than anyone else ever has, especially because it's not unheard of for kids to be picked on for being in foster care.

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Taylor
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    My family started doing foster care when I was three years old. We took in nineteen children over the course of eighteen years, with our last placement leaving in December 2014. I'm the only biological child in my family, though my parents adopted five of my siblings.

    I love to share my perspective on the foster care system and share how my unique upbringing shaped my life.

    I'm also a Cast Member at Walt Disney World and lover of all things Disney! My career allows me the opportunity to find a little bit of Magic in life every day.


    I enjoy sharing my journey as a writer as well. Find my children's books on Amazon and keep following my blog for updates on future books that I'll be releasing!

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