Nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of
bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day
because they’re afraid of being bullied. (Source: ABC News).
Victims of bullying are between two to nine times more likely to
consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale
University. As Charisse J. Rudolph says, “Getting an education
shouldn’t be a death sentence.” She is the author of Words Hit
Hard as a Fist, with 18 Tips on How to Stop Being Bullied, a
book published by Balboa Press, a Division of Hay House.
Rudolph, a bullying expert, offers strategies for stopping abuse
before it leads to suicide. Rudolph grieves for each one of
these children – especially Walsh, who hung himself in his
backyard in her own town of Tehachapi, Calif. She believes that
if she or someone knowledgeable about bullying could have gotten
to Walsh and the others in time, their lives could have been
saved. Her new book, Words Hit Hard as a Fist, is designed to
give teenagers, parents, teacher