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Rachel Johnson, from the Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse in Poughkeepsie, joined News 12 this morning to discuss the significance of this topic.

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Is back now with another look at your forecast. Did you pick your tree out yet? Oh, our tree is picked out years ago. It's in the box. Oh, well, there you go. I know we were trying to decide this year whether we get the fake tree or the real tree. But we went with the real one. You can't beat the real tree though. I mean, the smell is just so nice in the house, but either one it's gonna look great. Oh, absolutely. And in fact, if people didn't go ahead and get that real tree yet, I think you're gonna be able to find a few dry days this week to go ahead and do some tree shopping. But when you're gonna be out and about make sure that you do have that jacket because through the middle of the week, we're turning colder, but at least staying dry. In fact, we're gonna be seeing dry conditions overnight as the cold fronts approaching our air. Then it passes through for your day tomorrow. Now, the weekend much like this past weekend is gonna be split 5051 day being great. The other one not so much right here is the great day. It is Saturday, my pick of the week, 53 degrees, partly sunny skies, mild temperatures and with a nice pleasant breeze coming on it, that breeze will continue to pick on up ahead of a storm system making its way towards our area. Sunday, bringing us batches of rain, breezy, mild muggy air and then it leaves us by late Sunday and colder air will come rushing on in behind it and those temperatures will start to cool down. Going in towards next week overnight. Tonight, we go out towards pine bush down to 31 degrees. Yorktown Heights, 34 white points, 35 cloud cover slowly thinning on out heading in towards your daybreak on Tuesday as those temperatures a little bit cooler. Then by tomorrow afternoon, upper thirties to low forties coming on in running a few degrees cooler than the average high. About 45. Feel like temperatures though starting to notice a little bit of a chill in the air for a northerly breeze coming on down, bowling going into, I should say for Wednesday morning, we have temperatures in the twenties and thirties though feeling in the mid to upper twenties so still have that chill coming on down about 5 to 10 MPH past Wednesday afternoon. Towards Thursday. It's gonna be a chilly start today. Lots of locations trending below the freezing point at 32 degrees and certainly feeling just as cold if not colder. Thankfully though, we swing out of that deep freeze going on in, through portions of the midweek past the first night of Hanukkah Friday. Temperatures getting milder mid-forties coming on in Saturday, like I said, 53 Sunday, 55. And then once the next system passes, we cool on down, but we're still trending above, uh I should say towards normal level. So this time of year internet.

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National Stop Bullying Day highlights October as National Bullying Prevention Month

Well, October is National Bullying Prevention Month and today is Stop Bullying Day. Joining us now is Rachel Johnson with the Center for Prevention of child abuse in Poughkeepsie Rachel. We are hearing from some parents that the war overseas may be increasing bullying, especially among those who come from the Middle East. What advice do you have for parents in talking to their kids about this? Sure, that's our concern too. And you wanna look for those warning signs. Um that will be the same for any form of bullying. You wanna look for sudden changes in behavior. Are they no longer wanting to go to school? Are they no longer enjoying the things that brought them uh joy? Are they faking being sick or are they uh showing real physical ailments? Uh headaches, stomachaches, uh decrease in grades, changes in eating or sleeping behaviors, self-harm. You wanna look for all of those signs and, and um talk to your Children, talk to your Children whether um you think they're being bullied or not research the topic so that you can have a real open and productive conversation about bullying, allow them to ask questions about what's going on and as parents, we need to know what, what apps cyber bullying plays into it as well, knowing what apps they're on, what games they're on, what websites they're going to. Uh, that is really important because it's not just happening in a school environment or a game environment. There are dangers online as well. Yes. And it's, it's so much the teens are online now more than ever. Um, they can cyberbullying, they can hide their identity, makes it tough, tougher for adults to notice. Um, I think it's one in three Children now are being, um, will be cyberbullied this year. So it's important. Yeah. So talk to us a little bit about how the center for the prevention of child abuse in Poughkeepsie is playing a role in trying to make things better for local families. Yes, we have a program, it's called the Personal Safety program and we go into schools to teach kids how to protect themselves against bullying. And we talk to kids about being an upstander, not just a bystander, but an upstander who stands up for the bully who, um, helps them talk to a safe adult who shows, shows kindness and compassion to the victim. And we give every student that we present to the teddy bear coin and this teddy bear coin we tell them to hold on to this. We hope they don't have to do that. Should something occur. Um, should they be bullied? They can just turn into their trusted adults. If they can't get the words out, no questions asked. This teddy bear coin will show that, uh, it indicates that they need help. What an amazing opportunity for those kids who might not have the right vocabulary at a young age to actually get some of these concerns taken care of Rachel Johnson with the Center for prevention of child abuse at Poughkeepsie. We really appreciate you being here. Thank you so much. And if people would like to learn more about your organization, what's the best way to get in touch with you? Yes. If anybody has questions about what they heard today, please give us a call. 8452494873. I'd love to talk to them or they can go to our website and find a bunch of information, the C PC A dot org. All right. Thank you so much. Some good information there. We appreciate your time. Thank you for calling attention to this important matter.

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