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BULLY TIPS
FOR BUILDING CONFIDENCE
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Buzzy says:
Treat your children as part of you family community. Try letting them have a voice in some of the decision making when it concerns choices for them.They will feel like more responsible and respected members of the family. It will help them understand the decision making process so they can learn to make the right choices inside and outside of the home.
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Buzzy
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Listening is a necessary and important skill that we spend a lot
of time trying to teach our children. Good listening skills, can play an important role in community acceptance. When our kids feel they are part of a community, they feel validated.
Well-developed listening skills allow for greater understanding, and with understanding, tolerance and compassion have room to grow.
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 EVENTS CALENDAR
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If you have any questions about the events below, please contact us.
October 29 - Fall Festival
Alpharetta/Milton
November 15 - Board & Friends Celebration
Marietta -- Turner Chapel AME, Marietta, GA. 6-7 p.m. PEACE mobile will be open to view and play! 7-9 p.m. celebrate with us at the Turner Chapel AME. Everyone is invited!
December - Recruiting/ Orientation for Board Members 2012.
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Children learn to build community by building a bridge that has the steps to work out conflicts or problems.
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WORDS TO LIVE BY
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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FESTIVAL OF TREES
 Last year's Festival of Trees was a smashing success and we've been invited to do it again this year. We won't have all of the information until the end of the month, but we will issue a special e-mail to let everyone know what's happening. We'll be counting on our supporters to spread the word to help our tree receive the most donations. |
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Recycling with CPC helps us raise funds for our many activities. Recycle ink cartridges and cell phones with us. | |
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Just one more way to help without spending your hard-earned dollars. | |
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Greetings!
Community is defined as a group that shares common characteristics or interests and generally perceives itself as distinct from the larger society. A family, neighborhood, classroom, local government, or even members of the Children's PEACE Center can each be considered a community. Because community depends upon the participation of its members, it is up to the individual to delineate his or her position within the group.  Being part of your community is an important way to connect to the world around you, to share experiences, and to be part of something larger than yourself. So, go ahead, jump right in! Get involved in a community project. Whatever community you belong to, that group needs your input, your thoughts and ideas, and your action to succeed in its goals. Find your place in the communities that are important to you. Each of us has talents, abilities, strengths, and skills that can lift others within our group to achieve their goals, both individual and collective. Working together to accomplish a common goal builds character and confidence in each community member, a worthy goal on its own! Being part of a community encourages understanding and compassion as compromise and tolerance are essential to the peace and well-being of the group and its members. On the road to world peace, communities, both large and small, must follow the kindest common principles to remain on course. Be gentle, be kind, be tolerant, be patient, believe in yourself, and take part in community life. If peace is to be, it starts with you and me! |
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The Beauty of Community 
By Elizabeth Kim
Gathered together, a multitude
Of people both big and small
Creates a magnificent prelude
To what could be achieved by all.
The power of one exponentiates
When people both young and old
All arise together to elate
A purpose worth more than gold.
Even though a poet is the last thing I am in this world, I still felt compelled to compose a few poetic lines to introduce my personal message for this edition of our newsletter.
As an active member of my community, I have experienced for myself the beauty and the boundless capacity of what a group of people, whether small or big, can accomplish. I have witnessed the immense support brought to a terminally ill youth by the community. I have seen ideas successfully come to fruition by way of the community's efforts. In fact, I witness the reverberating implications the community bestows upon us every single day. Nearly everything you see was brought to existence by a group working towards a single goal. Your car, house, neighborhood, America, and even that little anthill by the bush in your front yard all became what they are today, not because of one person's (or ant's) single effort, but because of the combined efforts of a team. This is an essential component of our day to day lives.
 If we want our children to effectively pioneer the course of our great nation in the near future, we must start the process today by implanting the ability of being able to partake and excel in a community setting. The mastery of this skill will ultimately lead to societal success for your beloved children.
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Building Community
 Building a peaceful community is hard work. It takes all of us sharing and working together. The Children's PEACE Center is presenting an Intergenerational Workshop on Building Understanding Communities in October in North Carolina. The focus is on communication skills, conflict management, understanding why we act the way we do, and how to build our neighborhood into a community of peacemakers. We have gathered a lot of resources and would be happy to share them with anyone that would like to pursue peacemaking in their home, or community. Just e-mail us, we look forward to sharing.
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BOOKS FOR THE SPECIAL CHILDREN
IN YOUR LIFE
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BE A COMMUNITY
Being a Community takes a lot of work.The most important rule for success that I can think of is to follow the Golden Rule:Do to others as you would want to have done to you. Simple enough, but the tricky part is in knowing how to get started. Being a Community means that you don't wait for someone else to start following the rule, you take the leap and begin it yourself. It all begins within each of us.This means that children need to develop a strong self-concept and the ability to stand up for people and principles that are important to them, even when it goes against the tide.
Kathryn Otoshi has written a pair of books that help illustrate these important concepts to children in a way that seems simplistic, but is surprisingly refreshing and meaningful.
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ONE
In her book One, Otoshi introduces us to a cast of colors featured with beautiful watercolor splashes. The colors are being terrorized by Red who is in a fighting, angry mood! No one wants to stand up for themselves or anyone else, so pretty soon they are all being bullied and pushed around. Until, that is, the arrival of One. One won't stand for it! The others soon become inspired to take stands of their own, and community is restored. The message is stated clearly in the book: Sometimes it just takes One. One thing I really liked about this book is that at the end all the colors find a way to include Red. I liked this better than the approach in say, the Kevin Henkes' book Chrysanthemum where the bully gets laughed at in the end and there is not really a peaceful resolution for the classroom community. One has been honored with many awards including E.B. White Read Aloud Honor Book, Teacher's Choice Award, and the Young Voices Foundation Award.
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ZERO
Zero follows up where One left off with a community of colorful numbers having a great time. Zero notices how much fun they are having, but is sure that she doesn't count. She tries to change her shape, but she always comes up zero! The more she tries to be like everyone else, the worse she makes everyone feel. The other numbers encourage her to be open to discovering her special value. She finds out that when zero hangs out with the other numbers she makes them a little more than they were before! (As an added benefit - some basic math concepts are introduced as well!)
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Newest Board Member for 2011
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Data helps children understand how to avoid being a
victim of a bully.
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We welcome Ms. Data Warren, BS, MBA to our Board of Directors. She has over 20+ years of business experience ranging from technology to finance. She has used her background and education as a vessel in showing children and young adults the benefits of how money works in terms that they can understand. She enjoys writing poetry and reading novels. Data enjoys working with the children as well as serving on our Executive Board as the Secretary and helping out whenever she can.
In December , the Children's PEACE Center will hold its annual Recruiting and Orientation for Board Members 2012. If you or someone you know might be interested in making a difference in children's lives and want to spread the message of violence prevention and peacemaking, please contact us..
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Dear Peace Partner,
We've had a great Summer with lots of community building experiences. We were able to bring the Peace Mobile to the Austell Peace Day Community celebration, both the Austell and Powder Springs Back to School Events in July and August, and to the Boys and Girls Club in Austell for two week long Peace Camps in July.
In September we participated in a Peace Summit in Missouri to brainstorm ways to get communities involved in peacemaking, and joined a KSU Conflict Management Panel to share careers in peacemaking. We thank our special volunteers Ada, Michelle, Lissa, Karol, Chuck, and Monica who helped with several of the events. We welcomed Hary and Rachel to our volunteer staff in September.
Plus on a personal note, we celebrated with our son Greg on his marriage to Kelly. We are thrilled at having a daughter in the family. We also helped my Sister move into her new home in Missouri and meet the community members. She loves the small town atmosphere in the Senior Living community. We all build community in our families, neighborhoods, schools, workplaces and wherever we share our stories and reach out in friendship.
We look forward to a great Fall and hope you'll all join us at our Board and Friends celebration on Nov. 15th to hear more stories of peacemaking and meet new friends.
Peace,
Andria Melham
Children's PEACE Center
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Donate online or mail your
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Children's PEACE Center
P.O. Box 379, Acworth, GA 30101
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