About Us

When my son Encore was severely bullied for having a rare condition called “Achondroplasia” a fancy word for dwarfism, my heart sunk. Encore is a very happy and positive child with lots of love and drive but when he began to come home every day with scratches and hungry, I knew something was immensely off. He made excuses saying he “lost his money or he bought lunch for a friend.” In addition to his evasiveness and excuses, he came home with missing skin on his chin and told me a child kept purposely stepping on the back of his shoe to make him fall because he was little.

Moreover, he told me“the children stared, pointed, laughed, called him a freak, ugly, monster and purposely held things above his head so he could not reach them.” That was the day I decided as a mom hearing his story was not enough but becoming proactive was something that was not only my duty for him but for all children who are bullied. After a few months of research and forming our non-profit “Tiny Be Mighty” to combat bulling, I stumbled upon mothers who lost children due to suicide as a result of bullying. Mothers who had children as early as 7 years old taking their own lives by hanging or shooting. I was flabbergasted and air was literally removed from my lungs as I read story after story. I was so moved, I began to reach out to them. The meetings were nothing shy of disheartening and devastating. To learn that they found their own children in their rooms completely dispirited me and made me question our schools as well as the protocol they had in place to protect our kids from this unmet epidemic and horror.