Fighting Bullying With Babies NYT 2010/11/08

Hello, back again, this time with an interesting article from the NY Times about a strategy for addressing bullying in schools - by taking babies into classrooms. It began as a parenting education program, but it turned out that by playing with a baby once a week, watching it grow and develop, the children's negative aggression decreased and their kindness and acceptance of others increased. I was reminded of the 'shoes off' schools that Stephen Heppell talks about... it just seems to work.