Youth Call Review

Tonight's Youth Call was a success!  We discussed Bullying and how it has become an epidemic around the world, in our communities and especially our schools.  Our kids are dying behind this epidemic.  We must come together as a hold to stop this from happening and losing our youth due to suicide or homicide.  During our discussion we discovered this type of behavior most of the time starts in the home.  Our kids are acting out what they are witnessing at home from their parents or caregivers known as adult bullying.  This definitely needs to stop and come to a hault!

Bullying comes in all different types:

1. Face to Face
2. On Facebook
3. Instagrams
4. Twitter
5. Emails
6. Text Messages

We found out from Sis Tonya that the word bullying started as a good word gone bad.  It was a word that had good intent.  See below from the Online Etymology Dictionary:

Bully (noun) "1530s, originally "sweetheart," applied to either sex, from Dutch boel "lover; brother," probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch broeder "brother" (cf. Middle High German buole "brother," source of German Buhlebrother (n.)).

Meaning deteriorated 17c. through "fine fellow" and "blusterer" to "harasser of the weak" (1680s, from bully-ruffian, 1650s). Perhaps this was by influence of bull (n.1), but a connecting sense between "lover" and "ruffian" may be in "protector of a prostitute," which was one sense of bully (though not specifically attested until 1706). The expression meaning "worthy, jolly, admirable" (especially in 1864 U.S. slang bully for you!) is first attested 1680s, and preserves an earlier, positive sense of the word." "lover;" see"

What do we do?

•  First we as parents need to talk to our kids about it by making it an open discussion around the dinner table.
• Second we need to get more involved in the schools and communities to bring awareness of this type of behavior.
• Third we need to PRAY!  PRAY for our children, PRAY for the parents of the bullies and the once being bullied, PRAY for our schools and PRAY for our communities!

We are all a part of the Kingdom of God and we need to unite with one another and the youth to make it a better and safer place to dwell! 

Visit StopBullying.gov for parent and kids on information of how to help stop bullying.

Join us on 10/27/2013 at 7pm.  Our next topic is Teen Violence.