Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week, daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

So we're at the midway point in the week in our real-life parenting week.

I've been talking about some important issues like friendship, dating, and heartbreak, and how to help our kids

through that. And today I want to talk to you about something some of you requested, and I think

is such an important thing to discuss, the issue of bullying and how is a parent to really deal

with that. It's heavy when your child is being made fun of or put down. And I have a really hard time

with this because my justice meter goes crazy over it.

I get very angry, I'll admit. So let's jump into this important topic in a minute.

So bullying is a huge problem for a lot of kids across the world and it's a tender, tough

subject, but I want to try to tackle it. I wish I had more time.

There's so many things we could talk about, but let me say, I'm coming at all these topics

in parenting from my own parenting experience of 20 years, not a counselor or a self-proclaimed

expert, but I've been around the block a few times raising both boys and a girl, and I know

the baby stuff, though it's been a while, the toddler stuff raising both boys and a girl, and I know the baby stuff,

though it's been a while, the toddler stuff, which is really a busy age, the middle school stuff,

so much angst there, the high school stuff with growing pains, and now even the young adult stage.

Every stage has its challenges, but one of the hardest things as a parent to watch and maneuver

is when your child is in pain

over being bullied. I remember my own high school experience with a girl in my class that we'll call

Amy, who was sort of an outcast. And I wasn't the most popular girl in my class or my school

at all, and I sort of felt like an outcast sometimes myself, but I remember at times laughing

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