Work after bereavement...

Have you ever dealt with the death of loved one and didn't know how to function when you went back to work? When condolences were limited to about less than 10 people to acknowledge that your life has been flipped upside down and all you want to do is cry.

How do you go back to work where everyone's life is normal and yours has made a complete 180º? When my brother passed away, I felt like I had a case of phantom limbs, just waiting for this missing limb to reappear, but it never will. It has only been 6 weeks since he died and I feel people are expecting me to like nothing ever happened. Has anyone ever felt that way before? Then next question is how long does it take for someone to heal?

I try every day to stay strong, not just for my children and loved ones, but for the people who depend on me at work. Truthfully, I think I have tried to put my emotions to the side and just have deal with the hand that I was dealt but in truth, I do not think that is the answer either. So question remains, what is the right answer?

Laura Hidalgo
Social Media Manager

Why we HATE Bullies

12 Year old East Harlem boy driven to suicide because of Bullying. I have read these articles numerously and I just don't understand why? Why are children so merciless and cruel? This child's mother went to the extreme to protect her child and the bullies prevailed by driving her son to commit suicide. In realization of her sons death, she intended to take her own life using the knife she use to cut her sons rope that he used to hang himself. 

As a mother of 2 children, my daughter Naiya was a victim of bullying. I spoke with her teachers and they reached out to the parents.  I just couldn't bare the idea that my child could suffer the fate of this child, so last November I enrolled her at Tiger Schulmann's mixed martial art in Yonkers. It was Sensei Tirelli that gave my daughter confidence to stand up for herself and stop the bullies from picking on her.  

Honestly, this wasn't enough in my mind, I couldn't bare to see another child bullied and so I talked to my General Manager about doing an ANTI-BULLYING campaign in our local school district. I worked with Sensei Tirelli who was on board in participating in the joint effort in stopping bullying from our schools. So in effort in stopping Bullying, we here at Westchester Toyota want you our friends, fans, and loyal readers to tell your school about our ANTI-BULLYING CAMPAIGN. We want you to voice that WE NEED this in our schools so there won't be another child like Joel Morales who had to take his own life to stop the bullies. Please E-Mail me if you would like for me to send our campaign idea so you can forward it to your local school board.

Laura Hidalgo

Social Media Manager