Mrs. Berkovitz, our school’s psychologist, and Ms. Santoriella, a licensed counselor, came in to speak with the 7th grade GEMS girls about some serious issues. Mrs. Berkovitz talked about stress and how it can affect a person’s physical and emotional well being. She did an excellent exercise with the girls to help them relax and reduce their stress. [...]

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We all get how important it is to talk with someone with whom we trust whenever we are faced with problems.   Girls are often encouraged to talk with their moms or dads when something is wrong, but we know that is sometimes very difficult to do.  We think our parents could never understand, or worse, whatever they say [...]

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At the beginning of each new year people make resolutions or set goals for themselves. These resolutions or goals usually focus on self improvement. What if we all made a resolution to do something to stop bullying, gossiping, and other behaviors that tear relationships apart? I am challenging each of you to post a resolution [...]

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In recent news there was another case of cyberbuylling; this time it was in Missouri and it was through text messaging. On our December Discussion blog many of you agreed that parents needed to monitor and be aware of their child’s Internet usage, do you think the same applies to text messaging? Think about this: in the case [...]

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In GEMS we try to talk about the dangers of the Internet and how to protect ourselves. We always talk about the danger of trusting someone on the Internet and giving out too much information about ourselves. Recently there was a case where Lori Drew, a mom, posed as a young boy on MySpace to [...]

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