1. Vol: 3
Edition: 3
Date: September 2013
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• Start the pattern of family dinners when children are young
• Encourage your children to create menu ideas and participate
in meal preparation
• Turn off the TV and let your answering machine answer
calls during dinnertime
• Talk about what happened in everyone’s day: school, work,
extracurricular activities or current events
• Establish a routine to start and end each meal. Light candles
or tell a story
• After dinner play a board game or serve dessert to encour-
age the family to continue the conversation
• Keep conversation positive and make sure everyone gets a
chance to speak
• Join parents across the country in making a special commit-
ment to your children for Family Day. Learn more about the
origins of Family Day and take the Family Day STAR pledge,
visit CASAfamilyday.org
What began as a grass roots movement has since
grown into a national celebration. Launched in
2001 by the National Center on Addiction and Sub-
stance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, Family
Day serves as a reminder that family meals are a
simple and effective way to help prevent negative
peer pressure.
Why should I worry about my child experimenting?
Adolescence is the critical time when kids are at risk of ex-
perimenting with drugs, alcohol and tobacco. In fact:
Nine out of 10 Americans who meet the medical criteria for
addiction started smoking, drinking, or using other drugs
before age 18.
Addiction is a disease that in most cases begins in
adolescence.
Preventing or delaying teens from using alcohol, tobacco or
other drugs for as long as possible is crucial to their health
and safety.
FAMILY NIGHT ~SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN
• 1-1/2 cups long-grain white rice, uncooked
• 1 pkg. (14.8 oz.) KRAFT RECIPE MAKERS Sweet & Sour Chicken
• 1-1/2 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size
pieces
• 1 red pepper, coarsely chopped
• 1 small red onion, coarsely chopped
• 1 can (8 oz.) pineapple chunks, drained
• COOK rice as directed on package, omitting salt.
MEANWHILE, stir-fry chicken in half the Simmer Sauce in large
skillet until done.
ADD vegetables and remaining Simmer Sauce to skillet; stir-fry 2
to 4 min. or until vegetables are crisp-tender.
STIR in Finishing Sauce and pineapple; stir-fry 1 to 2 min. or until
heated through. Serve over rice.

2. Partnership for a Healthy Northern Penobscot
Bullying Definition
Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that
involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or
has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and
who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.
In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and in-
clude:
An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power—such as physical
strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or
harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situa-
tions, even if they involve the same people.
Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential
to happen more than once.
Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attack-
ing someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on
purpose.
Types of Bullying
There are three types of bullying:
• Verbal bullying is saying or writing mean things. Verbal bullying in-
cludes:
Teasing Name-calling Inappropriate sexual comments
Taunting Threatening to cause harm
• Social bullying, sometimes referred to as relational bullying, involves
hurting someone’s reputation or relationships. Social bullying includes:
Leaving someone out on purpose
Telling other children not to be friends with someone
Spreading rumors about someone
Embarrassing someone in public
• Physical bullying, involves hurting a person’s body or possessions. Phys-
ical bullying includes:
Hitting/kicking/pinching Spitting Tripping/pushing
Taking or breaking someone’s things
Making mean or rude hand gestures
• Cyberbullying, Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electron-
ic technology. Electronic technology includes devices and equipment
such as cell phones, computers, and tablets as well as communication
tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites.
mean text messages or emails rumors sent by email
rumors posted on social networking sites embarrassing pictures
embarrassing video websites fake profiles.
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: StopBullying.gov
For more information or questions please contact: Bethany Whitehouse at bwhitehouse@mrhme.org 723-3034
Jane McGillicuddy at jmcgillicuddy@mrhme.org 723-5288