{"id":1428,"date":"2018-12-28T08:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2023-09-29T13:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:27:32","slug":"bullying-glowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/bullying-glowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullying & Glowing Jelly Beans"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if\u00a0worth –\u00a0the value one places on their\u00a0own life and\u00a0its value to the world\u00a0–\u00a0could be seen\u00a0as\u00a0glowing jelly beans in our bellies?<\/p>\n

As words of affirmation<\/a> and destiny where spoken, new jelly beans would begin to\u00a0glow. With hate, fear, doubt – “you’re not enough” – jelly beans would fade away.<\/p>\n

Imagine what it would be like to be a child…<\/p>\n

You go to school early in the morning, belly filled with glowing jelly beans. You have an excitement that bubbles up as you think about the conversations you are about to have. You love seeing glowing jelly beans light up in your friends and classmates. As you walk down the hallway towards your classroom, one of the school bullies walks your way.<\/p>\n

A bully isn’t always easy to spot, their bellies don’t glow as bright as the others. Most other kids are afraid of bullies because they make their jelly beans go dark, but you’re not the other kids. You’ve been taught that they’re only bullies because they don’t have many jelly beans of their own, but you have enough to share. You know that\u00a0you’ll light up their jelly beans before they put out one of your own.<\/p>\n

And that’s the strange thing. You would think that\u00a0bullies would bully to get their jelly beans to light up, but it never works that way. Bullying can make others jelly beans go dark at no real benefit to the bully. But the opposite is also true. You can go around lighting up the jelly beans of everyone around you – including the bullies – and you’ll never\u00a0lose a jelly bean of your own.<\/p>\n

Even if the world isn’t so obvious, nor the hearts of man so simple, we’re not really so much more complex either.<\/p>\n

We live in a world of hope, love, joy, and life. But it’s also a world of doubt, fear, insecurity, and death.<\/p>\n

But we can learn and we can teach where to put our focus. We can purposefully develop\u00a0character. Purposefully affirm our family, friends, and children. We can walk around with bellies full of glowing beans and light the bellies of others we meet.<\/p>\n

One of the organizations\u00a0we support and work with is\u00a0Bee Friendly Family<\/a>\u00a0– they are ending bullying. If you are a family dealing with or passionate about ending bullying, then become a Bee Friendly Family member. It’s a low monthly fee that not only gives your family the resources to deal with bullying but also pays to get the program into even more schools.<\/p>\n

Become a member. Nominate your school. Light up some\u00a0bellies. End bullying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why does bullying even exist and can we do anything about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[346],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}