We can still do more to reduce bullying, says Amanda Todd’s mother on Pink Shirt Day
Posted February 27, 2019 11:32 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The push to reduce bullying has improved the situation — but we still can do better.
That’s what anti-bullying advocate Carol Todd said Wednesday, on Pink Shirt Day.
Todd lost her daughter Amanda to suicide after she was the subject of unrelenting online harassment.
“There was less conversation with the kids,” she said. “There were less supports out there for families and for kids. Now, I see it everywhere. It just needs to be talked about more. It needs to be shared.”
“We have to say and we have to teach what is right and what is wrong — how to be nice, how to be kind. Think about your actions. Think about your digital footprint. Think about what you leave behind.”
Todd says educating adults is just as important as teaching children about being respectful to one another.
Pink Shirt Day began with an act of kindness in Nova Scotia in 2007. A few teens organized a high school protest to wear pink in support of a boy in Grade 9 who was bullied for wearing a pink shirt.
It has become an annual event, with people and schools everywhere taking part in Pink Shirt Day.
