Nancy Willard
Nancy Willard
Nancy Willardis an American writer: novelist, poet, author and occasional illustrator of children's books. She won the 1982 Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn...
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These activities are causing significant emotional distress to the victims. In some, they are resulting in increasing reports of suicide. In many cases, it contributes to depression, school avoidance and myriad other consequences related to emotional abuse.
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Young people don't seem to make a connection with the vulnerability that they can get into by posting themselves publicly.
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How do you establish online friends by talking about the weather?
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They are more likely to do things online than they would in the real world. It's the 'You can't see me, I can't see you phenomenon.' There's a perception of invisibility.
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I've seen reports of children having to change schools. Or children committing suicide. So, ah, yeah, the off-campus activities can have significant harm.
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But kids who don't have positive real-world relationships will use online social communities to find those kinds of relationships. They're more vulnerable to the dangers present there.
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I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.
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Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
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If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.
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What you need will come back to you.
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Live in your roots, not in your branches.
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Faith takes root in the insignificant.
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the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.
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We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.