When someone hurts your feelings by bullying, sensitive kids expect the bully to be sensitive. When they’re not, often the sensitive kid wants to tell the bully how she feels, particularly when they’re young and the bullying is verbal.

It’s important to go over likely Bullying scenarios with your child to help her rehearse what to say and do when the problem occurs. Forget about insulting or threatening the bully. Forget about telling your child to “just ignore it.” “Cute” and snappy comebacks are tough to pull off, but possible if your child feels […]

Once you’ve established that something has happened that sounds like bullying, it’s time for the child to do a little assessment to figure out if the problem needs to be acted upon, and if so, how. The following are 6 questions your child can ask themselves while in the bullying situation, and afterward, when analyzing it

If your child used to talk to you, but now shuts down when talking about emotional things, this could very well just be a product of “growing pains” (young children talk openly to their parents much more than preadolescents and adolescents do), or the child may be humiliated about something, or it may be that you’ve reacted badly in the past or given off the wrong signals without meaning to.

Learning how to talk to your child about bullying is not an easy task. I have developed a set of questions to help you create a productive conversation with your child. Instead of trying to pull teeth out to get your child to respond, ask questions that lead to deeper responses. You can modify these […]