From the desk of ... Mary Robinson Reynolds, M.S. Educational Psychologist
Re: I AM PISSED OFF!

I awoke in the middle of the night last night wondering how in heaven's name I was going to get my MDPA program into schools in time - before the next suicide and the next school shooting.

To lull myself back to sleep, I had a bowl of oatmeal and turned on the TV only to see the report that there was another school shooting yesterday in Nevada, and all this following the Sept. 12 suicide of a 12 year old girl who was being terrorized by several students.

Just last week, I sent out an email to you about doing something while it's quiet out there - showing you a map of all of the school shootings since 1974. So here it is for you to see again:

School Shootings in the USA since 1974:

Let me just say this RIGHT UP FRONT, I don't care if you think it's too soon after this school shooting in Nevada to be "selliing my program" because I am FLIPPIN' pissed off that more schools, businesses, churches and well-meaning organizations have not stepped up and taken advantage of the extremely generous offer I have made over the last three months.

I'm a parent who has lost a child (due to different circumstances,) but a loss is a loss, and it is still with me to this day, and I can tell you that there is no time better than right now to get involved in a Movement that WILL SAVE LIVES.

I have been not only GIVING a 85% savings on the "I Make A Difference" Wristbands, but I'm also GIVING my Make A Difference with the Power of Acknowledgment Program training for FREE THIS THURSDAY (my full day training fees begin at $14,500).

What this means is that for an investment in just 1400 "I Make A Difference" Wristbands, you get the my Make A Difference with the Power of Acknowledgment Program and my TeleTraining for FREE.

If you feel the same way as I do - then you know THIS MUST STOP NOW!

I have not seen any other program out there like my PROVEN MDPA Program that DEALS with Attitudinal Energy of adult condemnation, humiliation and shame as ways to control, punish and over-power kids into behaving for the short term, only to explode into something ugly later.

My MDPA - Make A Difference with the Power of Acknowledgment Program - is designed with the kind of safety nets that brings these kids out of the woodwork, so that these kids are no longer missed or allowed to remain unseen and unheard in the cracks of our hallowed school hallways and lockers, only to errupt and hurt themselves and others.

WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING NOW!

Kids are blowing themselves and each other up, and we are condoning it every time we don't step up and do something empowering, compassionate and profoundly effective.

Certainly, since Sandy Hook, many schools have brought a greater police presence on school campuses, etc. Certainly, schools have done things like have their teachers now carry hand guns!

Our daughter teaches in a school district in Texas, and she has been given training to carry a hand gun. As responsible parents with a gun in the house now, they are teaching our 5 year old grandson how to handle guns safely - as if there is such a thing as a 5 year old handling a gun safely! At least they are doing everything they can to keep their son supervised and educated, because their school is supporting them in carrying hand guns, and because they believe that they must be ready to defend themselves!

I understand and yet, I AM REALLY PISSED OFF about this!

It really scares me, and when I am scared, MOMMA BEAR shows up - and unappologetically I might add (and my kids are happy that she does, because that's how they know they are loved and cared for) ...

VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE - it always has been, and it always will be.

And I'm not just talking about physical violence - attitudinal violence is the real, underlying culprit behind extreme and explosive behavior.

Let me first acknowledge the Schools who have added Bullying Prevention and Intervention Plans. It's a GREAT START, and I've read over those plans and they are geared to control the bullying; not necessarily heal the campus-wide social emotional aspects underlying bullying.

Teachers will say that there is no way to heal campus-wide social emotional aspects of bullying because of the abusive parenting going on out there.

EXACTLY MY POINT! MDPA reaches out in the community - to the parents and businesses where parents work and where stuff happens!

Until we address what's really going on emotionally for ALL of our students - collectively and as a compassionate caring campus-wide community - there will still be those students who are NOT being seen, heard or felt until they do something extreme.

UNTIL we deal with the CONNECTION issue - the violence will continue and grow exponentially.

MDPA opens the doors to reaching into what's really going on for kids today.

We are going into the holiday season - it should not be necessary to remind us ALL what happened just last winter that we can now add to the Sept 12th suicide of a terrorized 12 year old and the Nevada shooting yesterday:

SHOOTINGS THAT MADE NATIONAL NEWS LAST WINTER

Clackamus Mall in Portland, OR
Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT

Hurt people, hurt people.
Hurt people, hurt themselves.

There were many more suicides and shootings that did not make the news.

AND DO NOT blow this off as the kid/person just had a mental illness! OF COURSE they were in tremendous mental-emotional-social pain.

OF COURSE!

Understand this: I am the WRONG PERSON to give your excuses to.

I started developing effective - transformative - life altering educational training programs for schools 20+ years ago, when I was a single mother with a 3 year old, doing it ALL by myself and ALL alone without the help of his father 98% of the time!

I was so certain that what I had to teach would work that I walked into the Superintendent of Schools office in Beaverton, OR to show him what I could do for the teachers and the at-risk students, and he LAUGHED AT ME!

That's right, he laughed at me and said, "Who do you think you are? What have you ever done? I've never heard of you? Why would we ever consider what you have to offer when you don't even have a field-tested program?"

He was right. I didn't have PROOF that he would listen to. He wouldn't listen to the fact that I had Stanford Achievement Test results that showed that the kids in my classroom had 2.5-3 years of growth, and that was with a classroom where 55%-65% of my students were at-risk, with the kids no body else wanted in their classrooms.

SO I went out as a single mother of a 3 year old and I got my PROOF.

I taught my program (TACT) Teachers as Counselors/Coaches Training for continuing education credit on evenings and weekends at the University of Portland, while having to find child care for my son with little or no money to do so. BUT I DID IT!

And that's my point! So I know what heartfelt purpose and determination looks like and feels like so DO NOT TELL ME that you don't have the time, money or energy.

I was a single mother, I worked a full time job as a elementary counselor AND cared for my son AND taught my TACT Program nights and weekends.

And just as I had enough proof to go back to that Principal - Oregon passed a bill that cut all funding to to schools for programs like mine, and I could not figure out a way to get it into schools.

I did not know how to write grants, and I had to make money to support myself and my son, so I found a way to do training in Corporations.

And guess what? I provided the SAME material I was teaching educators (managers) about how to work effectively with at-risk youth (at risk adults), because, when it's all said and done, we are all just little kids in big bodies.

At-risk kids have at-risk parents who work in our corporations and businesses. And people DO NOT leave their problems at the door when the arrive at work in the mornings!

So here I am today - 20+ years later STILL TRYING TO GET MY PROVEN PROGRAM INTO EVERY SCHOOL... and with this latest suicide and shooting/killing and suicide it's NO MORE Ms. NICE GAL!

IT'S ENOUGH! And, if you feel the way I do, NOW is the time to make this happen in your community and in your schools.

YOU HAVE TO DO THIS

If not you, then who?

If not now, then when?

You have 3 more days to get on this train, because it is leaving the station...

I AM OPENING THIS EXCELLENT OFFER BACK UP FOR 3 MORE DAYS
I WANT TO SEE YOU IN THIS TRAINING!

By giving you my Train the Trainer overview of MDPA UTrain® Program, I can help you bring the transforming impact of the "Who I am Makes a Difference" Acknowledgment Story into Your Community's classrooms NOW, along with other momentum building stories / movies: The Teddy Stallard Story, The Simple Gesture and more.

The Make a Difference with the Power of Acknowledgment UTrain® Program is designed to inspire and equip educators with a revitalized educational philosophy and practical techniques that will give life to academic performance and requirements.

It is the ONLY program of it's kind, because I'm teaching people about the debilitating effect that shaming, condescending Attitudinal Energy has on the kids who are already in pain, AND most importantly, this program teaches a SKILL SET that deals with Attitudinal Energy in a HUMANE MANNER. Even if you believe that this is not possible - you would be wrong - and I'm not afraid to help you learn something NEW!

Each Lesson in the program comes with discussions and activities to bridge the gap between social emotional issues and their often dramatic, life-altering effects.

So ... I am offering you free training on the delivery of the program, and you can invite whoever will be delivering the program, if that's not you.

In my VIRTUAL training, I will give you my BEST Exercise that gets everyone on the SAME PAGE - AND INVOLVED in delivering the program.

Plus, I will be walking you STEP-BY-STEP through exactly how to deliver this training site-wide for the greatest results possible. It WILL make a self-sustaining and measurable difference to the entire school for the whole year.

MDPA UTrain® Program is specifically designed to:

==> create social connectedness
==> provide concrete support in times of need
==> teach social and emotional competence

I will also teach you how to get Funding...

I AM OPENING THIS UP FOR 3 MORE DAYS
I WANT TO SEE YOU IN THIS TRAINING!

If you feel as strongly as I do about this then DO SOMETHING TODAY.

If you don't like today's empassioned "I'm PISSED OFF" response to another shooting and suicide, then unsubscribe yourself, because I'm not interested in anything you believe you are entitled to "hurl" at me because you are entitled to your opinions - of course you are entitled to your opinions - BUT that never gives you the right to be intentionally hurtful with them. So if you have something hurtful to say back to me, don't; just unsubscribe.

I wrote this on purpose, and MOMMA BEAR is NOT shrinking to fit your small mold!

I've been playing Ms. NICE GAL about my MDPA Program for the past 6 years, and every time there's another shooting or suicide I intend to keep talking about my MDPA Program in whatever way I feel is best at the time.

You are either contributing positively or you are contaminating.

Reaching out to Make A Positive, Transformational Difference ...

Mary Robinson Reynolds
Author & Founder, Heart Productions & Publishing
MakeADifference.com/Acknowledge
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