Read on for a detailed content advisory and resources for support around topics explored in Fancy Dancer.
Content Advisory
Fancy Dancer is a family-friendly show that features an easy-to-follow storyline and contains no profanity. It does include themes of bullying and mature topics, such as body image issues and AIDS, explored in age-appropriate ways.
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Resources
Fancy Dancer explores themes of bullying. For support around this issue, check out some free, online resources for audiences of all ages:
- StopBullying.gov: Find resource lists for youth, parents and guardians, teachers, coaches, and school staff, as well as for the general public..
- PACER Center's Kids Against Bullying: A creative and educational website designed for elementary school students to learn about bullying prevention, engage in activities, and be inspired to take action.
- Bystander Revolution: Offers practical, crowdsourced advice about simple things individuals can do to defuse bullying and help shift the culture.
- Stand For Courage: Led by students establishing a bystander culture to stop bullying, Stand For Courage employs stories, creativity, and popular-culture for high-impact recognition inspiring relationships built on respect.
- Center for Parent Information & Resources - Bullying: Find facts about bullying, what adults can do to prevent bullying, research about teasing and bullying behavior, and more.
- Stomp Out Bullying: A leading national nonprofit that works to reduce and prevent bullying, cyberbullying, and other digital abuse; educates against homophobia, LGBTQ+ discrimination, racism and hatred; and deters violence in schools, online and in communities across the country.
- You Can't Say You Can't Play by Vivian Gussin Paley (Book): "In this brief, ethereal and tender account of social relations among children, Paley—a kindergarten teacher at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, a MacArthur grant recipient and the author of The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter—explores how to keep students from being ignored by their classmates." (Publishers Weekly)
Bullying is no joke. And, if you’re dealing with it, you deserve help. You don’t have to go through this alone. Text CONNECT to 741741 to reach the Crisis Text Line now for free, confidential, 24/7 mental health support.