Parents’ involvement in bulling prevention and detection is essential in the battle of stopping bullying. But how do you find out if your children are being bullied if they are too embarrassed or too afraid to tell you. There are a few warning signs that parents should pay attention to: If your child comes home [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2010’
What works in bullying prevention?
There are many school-based bullying prevention programs. Although they vary in size and scope, the most promising programs incorporate the following characteristics: focus on creating a school-wide environment, or climate that discourages bullying, Surveys of students to assess the nature and extent of bullying behavior and attitudes toward bullying, Training to prepare staff to recognize [...]
Involve youth, parents, professionals, and volunteers in promoting bullying prevention
# Engage a diverse group of parents, youth, and caring adults to explore how residents perceive the problem and what solutions they recommend. # Be certain to involve youth at every stage in planning, implementing, and evaluating your bullying prevention efforts. That’s the best way to tap into their world and know what will work. [...]
Bullying is not the same thing as conflict
Bullying is aggressive behavior that involves an imbalance of power or strength. Often, bullying is repeated over time. Conflict involves antagonism among two or more people. Whereas any two people can have a conflict (or a disagreement or a fight), bullying only occurs where there is a power imbalance—where one child has a hard time [...]
Why does a school need a bullying prevention program?
Bullying among children is aggressive behavior that is intentional and that involves an imbalance of power or strength. Bullying can seriously affect the emotional, physical, and academic well-being of children who are bullied. Dealing with discipline problems related to bullying incidents can take a good deal of administrators’ and educators’ time during a school day. [...]
How can you help a child or adolescent who is bullied?
Don’t do further damage by lending too much support in public. Kids are concerned about what their peer group sees and knows. It may be more helpful to lend your supportive words and gestures in private. Spend time with the student. Learn about what’s been going on. Listen. Get the facts (who, what, when, where, [...]
Providing Support to Children Who Are Bullied
Bullying among children is aggressive behavior that is persistent, intentional, and involves an imbalance of power or strength. Children and youth who are bullied need clear messages of support from adults. Although we want children to be strong and assertive so that they can stand up to kids who bully, adults must realize that many [...]