Not exact matches
Bullying is about
kids using power to control other
kids, sometimes with the intention to
cause harm.
It is often the emotional toll of
bullying that
causes the most problems for the
kids being
bullied.
Before school starts, talk to your
kids about what
bullying is using language they can understand: someone with more social or physical power purposefully trying to
cause distress or harm to another person in physical, psychological, or social ways, often repeating it over time even though the victim wants it to stop.
Sometimes
kids feel like they did something to
cause the
bullying.
Sometimes,
kids keep silent because they are worried that reporting
bullying will
cause it to get worse.
While his book won't make your child immune from
bullying, it will help you understand the root
causes of
bullying, detect the early signs of
bullying, identify different types of
bullying (e.g. physical, verbal, relational / social), understand why
kids become
bullies, targets or bystanders, and empower you to support your children.
Assure your
kids that they did not
cause the
bullying.
But whereas free - swinging
kids once were shrugged off with limp phrases like «Boys will be boys,» police investigations have disclosed that
bullying is usually the root
cause of school shootings.
Our goal is to reach 10 million
kids or more,
causing a tipping point that ends
bullying in America.