RAISING CONSCIOUS KIDS
BULLYING AND LYING
CURED WITH 3D LEARNING:
Solid Ways to Grow Savvy
Superkids
by Janai ‘Grandma Boom’ Mestrovich
“Who has a success story from last week’s lesson on saying “NO!” to negative peer
pressure’?” I asked the question not knowing if any children would respond in front
of their peers. To my sheer delight, a boy’s hand shot up into the air immediately.
“Janai, my friends and I were going to beat up Bret
after school. But I remembered how it felt to make
a bad choice with negative peer pressure when you
taught us about it. My friends and I want to make
Bret feel bad. This time I said, “NO!” to the boys
who wanted me to go with them to beat him up.
We left Bret alone when I said, “NO!” I felt better
last night than when we beat somebody up. I don’t
want to bully kids anymore. It doesn’t feel good
in my body. And when I said I didn’t want to do it
anymore, my friends decided not to do it anymore,
too.” I applauded Greg’s accomplishment and his
willingness to share such a profound turn of events.
Greg was a third grade ring-leader of a bullying
group. At the time I was funded in a rural Oregon
area for several years by U.S. Bank, Cow Creek Seven Feathers Foundation, philanthropists and other community groups. My program consisted of an
approach I developed 40 years ago: 3D learning. I
use visual aids to create experiences for children.
3D learning means taking objects from the external world to get the attention of the children to relate to their internal world. The Self-Help Program
encompassed grades K-3, 113 children learning
a weekly theme with a holistic, experiential approach such as anger, stress, self-calming, negative
peer pressure, lying, communication skills, setting
goals, how the mind/body/emotions work together, and much more.
34 | NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW
For bullying and negative peer pressure I got a jute
rope that was scratchy and 1 "fVWB