Sticks and Stones Quotes

“We could, however, demand much more from the social media sites that are so eager to sign up our kids and encourage them to share, share, share. These companies are selling our kids’ “likes” and habits to advertisers, and enticing all of us to give up more and more of our privacy.”
― Emily Bazelon, Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy

“There’s a part of growing up that’s about being in the society of other kids when adults are not around and some of the rules are suspended,” Englander continued. “It’s a very necessary part of development. It’s how children learn to cope with these social problems by themselves. They need the freedom and elbow room of not having adults come in and fix everything, so they’ll learn to come up with their own solutions. And the odds are that the adults of today had far more time like that when they were growing up than today’s kids do.”
― Emily Bazelon, Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy