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PLEASE STOP LAUGHING AT US...
ONE SURIVOR'S EXTRAORDINARY
QUEST TO PREVENT SCHOOL BULLYING



JODEE BLANCO BOOK TOUR

Monday, September 15, 2008
Ecole Selkirk Jr. High

Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada
7:00- 9:00 p.m.
Parent/Community Seminar
& Book Signing
516 Stanley Avenue
Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Summit School

Winston-Salem, North Carolina
7:00 – 9:00pm
Parent/Community Seminar
& Book Signing
2100 Reynolda Road
Winston, Salem, NC

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Thomas W. Pyle Middle School

Bethesda, Maryland
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Parent/Community Seminar
& Book Signing
6311 Wilson Lane
Bethesda, Maryland

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Milford High School

Milford, Delaware
7:00 -9:00pm
Parent/Community Seminar
& Book Signing
1019 North Walnut Street
Milford, Delaware

Monday, October 13, 2008
Hawthorne High School

Hawthorne, NJ
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Parent/Community Seminar
& Book Signing
160 Parmelee Avenue
Hawthorne, New Jersey

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Wood-Ridge Alcohol & Drug Alliance

Wood-Ridge, NJ
Parent/Community Seminar
& Book Signing
Seminar Location & Time TBA

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Heineman Middle School

Algonquin, Illinois
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Parent/Community Seminar
& Book Signing
725 Academic Drive
Algonquin, IL


For more information about our tour,
please email The Blanco Group at: info@jodeeblanco.com, or
call 708-873-9225.

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Welcome to our website - yes, yours and mine. Because chances are, if you've landed here, you and I share something important in common. Both of us have been deeply affected by school bullying and peer abuse. Maybe you're a teen who's lonely and sad because no matter how hard you try to fit in at school, your classmates laugh at you behind your back and constantly pick on you. Maybe you're the bully, or even the bystander, the person who sees another student being hurt and humiliated but who does nothing to help. Perhaps you're a parent who can't stand one more day of watching your child suffer at the hands of his peers simply for being different. You might even be the mom or dad of a bully, and at your wit's end over what to do about it. Or, maybe you're an educator or counselor, frustrated by the pain you witness, yet feeling powerless to stop it.

No matter who you identify with above, I can promise you from my heart that you've come to the right place. Take a moment, close your eyes and breathe. There are solutions. Someone does understand. That someone is me.

Though you'd probably never know it if you met me now, during my adolescence from 5th grade through senior year of high school, I was tormented by my classmates, a total "outcast." Remember the Stephen King movie Carrie? What I went through in school makes that character's experiences seem like a Disney movie. I couldn't do what you have to do to be "cool." I wasn't good at all the things that makes someone popular in school - I didn't want to make fun of the chubby girl with glasses, the gay student, or the shy kid at the back of the class. If I saw something going on I didn't like, I spoke up. These might be great qualities to have when you're an adult,
but they're not so wonderful when you're a teenager.

I remember being so lonely in school that I would sometimes wake up in the morning wishing myself to sickness so I wouldn't have to face the teasing and rejection I knew was coming the moment I walked through the school doors. And the harder I tried to fit in, the worse it always got. My parents tried everything to help, but nothing ever did. I wish that there had been someone like me now back then, who had endured the bullying and survived, who could have given us real advice on how to get through it all. Not a psychiatrist or academic, not a clergyman or counselor, but a real person who had been there herself and could show us a way out.

That's why I'm here today, and I think why circumstances have led you to this website. I'm forty one years old now and successful. I turned my pain into purpose - that purpose being to help you. If you've read my New York Times Best-Selling book PLEASE STOP LAUGHING AT ME…, then you know what happened to me. If you haven't, I don't want to ruin the ending for you except to say this: there's a happy ending to my story and there can be for you too. Hopefully, you'll find both information and comfort here.

Since the release of my book, life circumstances, actually, all of you have led me down a very different career path. Due to the overwhelming response to the book, I have quite unexpectedly become an activist for the issue of school bullying. I am your voice.

As you read this, I am on tour for Please Stop Laughing at Us...One Survivor's Extraordinary Quest to Prevent School Bullying, my new book. This book is a sequel that picks up where the first book left off and offers solutions for parents, teachers, students and adult survivors. It's set against the narrative back drop of my own personal struggle, turning pain into purpose. If you want to see the press kit for this new book you'll find it under the media room tab on this website.

I'm not just a face in cyberspace. During the school year, I will again be consulting, speaking, and holding workshops and teleseminars for parents, teachers, and students at several schools throughout the United States, Canada, and several other countries throughout the world. I also work with organizations such as police, judicial, government, counseling, PTA’s, school boards, and youth groups. I’ve developed an instructional program for colleges and universities titled “The Desperate Freshman” where I work with administration, faculty, parents, students, and fraternities and sororities to help identify students at risk for becoming hazing and bullying targets. I can come to your school or town, too, and would be honored to be invited. I want to help. Please let me.

Let's get through this together,

Jodee Blanco