News anchor Jennifer Livingston made the news herself last week, as a video of her went viral online. I believe her strong rebuke to a viewer’s remarks about her weight is long overdue. We should not only applaud her courage, but we should also garner more support from those who believe that we need to teach both kids and adults to be more tolerant. Teaching the principles of common courtesy goes a long way in keeping bullying under wraps. Jennifer’s problems highlight two very serious issues that every parent must confront in raising kids.

First, there is the bullying issue. October is, appropriately, anti-bullying month. How apropos that the man who chided her did so at the end of September. No one deserves to have another person write or speak humiliating remarks to them. Saying shameful things to an adult is difficult, but doing so to a child can have long term effects on their self esteem.

The man who wrote to Jennifer was completely out of line to write to her, and her weight is none of his business. I wonder what his parents did wrong to raise a man who feels that he has the right to…