Life By Design Podcast

Wednesday,  February 26th, was Pink shirt day in Canada.   If you're not familiar with what this represents, as the story goes...   In 2007 two high school students in Nova Scotia witnessed other classmates bullying a grade 9 for wearing a pink shirt.   In response to this, the two who witnessed the bullying, went to a nearby discount store and purchased fifty pink shirts to distribute to their friends in order to take a stand with the child being bullied.   As it turns out, the next day, so many other children got behind this idea that literally, most of the school came dressed in head to toe pink standing in solidarity with the bullied child.   An amazing story and touching story, yes... but, what about the underlying issues surrounding bullying?   To truly overcome a challenge, you must understand the causes, the proper course of action, and the result.   As far as we can tell, and from our own personal experience, bullying comes in many forms - of course, the easiest and most popular example is a child ta