Does a Parent Raise a Bully? You probably know the child – the one who is always picking on others, taunting, shoving, or just being plain nasty. He is the bully. Maybe he is your child, or the classmate of your son or daughter. I wrote yesterday of how my boys and their friends recently [...]
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Helping Kids Deal with a Bully Without Losing Your Cool The playground bully – the one who seems to just be mean for the sake of being mean. Yesterday my sons and their friends met him, and he left his mark. It seems too stereotypical to be true – a bunch of boys playing at [...]
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Video of Bus Monitor Karen Klein Being Bullied Is Wake-Up Call for Parents Respect for elders – it might sound like an old fashioned expectation, but the recent video of the 64-year-old bus monitor who was bullied and harassed by 7th and 8th grade students is a signal that we need to go back to those [...]
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Bullying at the Ballpark – Parents Can Be the Loudest Losers Parents take the fun out of everything. Kids have been thinking that for years, and sometimes I agree. Take one afternoon and sit at a ballpark, soccer field, dance studio, or ice rink and you will likely hear the calls and cajoles of parents [...]
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“I have a tummy ache.” Have you ever heard those words from your child before? While sometimes it is truly a virus or other bug, it can also be one of many ways our kids reach out to us and let us know that they, too, feel stress and every day pressures of life. Children [...]
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I just had to re-post this video after I saw it, because it reflects how all children should handle a bully. I laugh whenever I see these anti-bullying campaigns people try to get me to donate money for. They try to raise awareness and show kids how to notify a teacher… blah… blah… blah. [...]
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If your child is being verbally or physically abused or is constantly being harassed by a peer(s), she is being bullied and immediate steps need to be taken to stop it. Bullying comes in many different forms and may be hard to pinpoint at first, but once you learn the signs to look for in [...]
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