Today is the annual Pink Shirt Day, an anti-bullying awareness day meant to spread the importance of kindness and standing up when you see bullying happening.

It’s also a day to promote inclusion, acceptance, and celebrate diversity as it is our differences that make us strong.

Unfortunately it is often also these differences that lead to ostracization, teasing, and bullying.

Whether it be mental health conditions, physical differences, ailments and disabilities, sexuality or gender identity, class differences, racial differences, or any number of other things that make us each unique, these are things to be celebrated and honoured, not attacked.

Today help educate your kids about the importance of inclusivity, love, and kindness to the people around them by modelling this behaviour yourself, and by wearing a pink shirt to show others you stand against bullying.