Bullying: 86,400 Seconds In A Day To Do Something About It

In the 86,400 seconds that make up a day, 60 seconds of it could be used to help a child or a co-worker in pain from bullying abuse.

What can be done in 60 seconds?

• eye contact

• listening

• a few kind sentences

• telling the knucklehead that's doing it to stop

• stepping up by telling someone in a position to help

• reminding them that they don't deserve it

• including them

• not laughing

• not joining in online or offline

• when online, advising friends not to hit "send" when the message is clearly unkind

• giving a hug

• realizing it only takes a minute to be an upstander

That's it. That only took about 60 seconds to type. (OK, 120 seconds but there are 86,280 left.)