It can be very difficult to hear “my child is a bully”from your friends or neighboors. Most parents’ natural instinct is to deny it. (“My child would never bully someone.”) Try to be aware of your own emotions, and to resist the urge to find someone else to blame or a way to excuse the […]
When Your Child is the Target of Bullying
If you learn that your child is a target of bullying, you must create an environment that is nonthreatening and safe for him or her. Accomplish this by remembering these steps: Listen to his feelings in a nonjudgmental manner. If you react with a strong emotional outburst, you may shut your child down because he […]
Expert Advice on Bullying
In 2018, Study.com ran a survey that found 1 in 5 teachers witness bullying in the classroom every day, yet only 23% of teachers feel confident educating students about bullying. Shocked by these stats, Study.com collected bullying prevention tips from experts in the field to better support teachers working to address bullying every single day. […]
When You Can’t Wait To Talk To your Child About Bullying
Sometimes you can’t wait for the child to come around to talk about their bullying situation. If you already have evidence that something’s seriously wrong (the child is coming home with torn clothes, or continually fakes illnesses, or you’ve seen threatening e-mails, for example), you’ll have to take a more forward approach. “I see a […]
How to Talk to Your Child About Bullying: Questions to Ask
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 […]
How to Talk to Your Child About Bullying
The Bully Proofing Prescription: Phase One: Recognize – Continued Before we move onto how to talk to your children about bullying, let’s talk first about the differences between how boys and girls handle a bullying conversation. The Differences when speaking to boys and girls about bullying Boys are generally more sensitive than girls about exposing […]
The Bullyproofing Prescription
Three steps make up the bully proofing prescription: Recognize, Act, and Preserve (RAP). This will be a long section so I will break it into bite size chunks over a series of different posts Bullying is meant to humiliate, and it does its job quite well. Often, bullied kids are so embarrassed that they don’t […]
Bullying. It’s Not a Tragedy, But an Opportunity
One key point I’d like to impress upon parents is that—strange as it may sound now—there can be something really positive about bullying. Think about the times when you’ve felt really good about yourself. Go ahead: Think of a few examples of times when you felt proud of yourself. Got it? Most of the experiences […]
Long-Term Consequences of Bullying
Even when the bullying doesn’t end in broken bones or death, it can have long-standing consequences for all involved—the target, the bully, those who assist the bully or the target, and the observers. You may have seen talk shows where formerly bullied kids come to say “look at me now” to their old tormentors. There’s […]
Social Dominance Theory
According to Social Dominance Theory, there is a hierarchy in all group situations. Someone’s always going to be at the top of the ladder and someone’s always going to be on the bottom. Now, of course, no one wants to be the one on the bottom—therefore, they want someone else to be on the bottom. […]
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