Another Tuesday night Book

And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence is a book by James Garbarino and Ellen deLara. The book focuses on the topics mentioned in the title and includes many interviews with real students on the tough subjects.

This book was pretty interesting. The authors are mostly gearing the book towards parents, but as a future teacher I still think it had a lot of good and interesting information. I mostly enjoyed hearing about bullying and harassment from the students. The chapters end with suggestions for parents, and I mostly skipped over those. I found the chapter on peer predictability the most interesting, because it was something I'd never explicitly thought about but that makes a lot of sense: students feel safer when they can predict their peers' actions. Overall, this book was worth the read, and I think another going to work at schools can benefit from this.