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Bullying Can Affect Health Later In Life

A study from Finland has found that boys who bully and boys who are victims of bullies are at higher risk for mental health disorders in their late teens and early twenties. More than 2500 Finnish boys participated in the study. At the age of eight, the boys were asked questions about bullying: if they were bullied, if they bullied others, how often it happened, and more. Parents and teachers also answered questions about the boys. A decade later, the information was compared with psychiatric information from medical exams taken between the ages of 18 and 23 in preparation for … Continue reading →

Mom Sues School Over Bullying

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A Coral Springs, Florida mom recently sued her son’s school board because she says her 12-year-old son was bullied this past year. This bullying, she said, caused her son “pain, fear, humiliation and social isolation.” But the twist is the mother is not seeking monetary compensation. Instead, she wants the school board ordered to segregate bullies at her son’s school and to conduct behavioral intervention programs aimed at reducing or eliminating bullying. She also wants the school to provide a better means of security so that her son can attend school in a safer environment. When it comes to the … Continue reading →

Teasing

Teasing and childhood seem to go hand in hand. Whether it is siblings teasing and pestering each other or peers and playmates teasing–this activity can be anywhere from light-hearted fun to very traumatic and life-altering. It can be a challenge for parents to get a handle on teasing and make sure it stays in the fun category. While we may not be able to control what other children do at school or in the neighborhood, we can help our child learn to cope with teasing, as well as NOT be someone who engages in inappropriate or hurtful teasing behaviors. Understanding … Continue reading →

When You Want To Hit A Bully Follow-up

This week I posted a blog titled “When You Want To Hit A Bully” and I just wanted to follow up on the story. The other day we told my son to hit the kid who had been bullying him for the last year at the bus stop. We felt like we had exhausted all other possibilities. My husband remembered when he was in junior high and a certain boy constantly bullied him. But one day my husband went up to the bully and hit him. After that the bully left him alone. So we felt like the action was … Continue reading →

When You Want To Hit A Bully

I recently read a post to an article that Kori Rodley-Irons wrote titled “What if You Don’t Like Your Child’s Friend?” and I wanted to respond to it. Katie-Anne wrote “I’d like to see an article that advises us moms on what to do when you want to go slap one of your kid’s classmates because they were mean to your child and he’s cried himself to sleep for a week as a result! ROFL I can’t be the only mom to have these completely irrational thoughts am I?” No Katie-Anne you are not the only mom who has had … Continue reading →

Helping Your Child Stand Up To Bullies

Unfortunately bullies are common in the lives of many children. I know that my own son has been bullied. Bullies use fear and often a larger size to get away with tormenting others. Bullying can be physical like kicking and tripping or more emotional like gossiping and exclusion. Children who are bullies have little empathy and enjoy dominating others. They have a positive attitude toward aggression and are often impulsive. A bully can be a boy or a girl, although their methods usually differ. Bullies usually pick on those that can’t or won’t protect themselves. So here are some ways … Continue reading →

Are Parents To Blame For School Bullying?

Bad parenting is to blame for school bullying. At least in Japan, according to a recent Yomiuri Shimbun survey. It seems most of those surveyed believe bullying is caused by parents failing to teach their children social rules. Respondents were asked to select from eight choices what major factors they believed was the cause of bullying. Bad parenting received 65%, 55% cited children’s lack of empathy for others, 52% said parents not being aware of the suffering of their kids, 48% blamed insufficient capabilities of the teachers and 45% blamed the schools for evading their responsibility by concealing bullying cases. … Continue reading →

Kid’s Pressure to be Cool

No matter what school your child attends, chances are he or she is feeling pressure to be “cool”. While being cool is okay to a certain degree, when it means dressing wrong, talking wrong, treating people badly, or misbehaving, then being cool is not cool at all. Today, we see several groups of kids, each requiring that members of the group fit in. For instance, the gothic group would expect dark clothing and hair, the preppy group would expect conservative clothing, and the jocks’ group would consist of only athletes, and so on. Although groups in school go back as … Continue reading →

The Bully Next Door

We had just moved and my son was feeling lost without his next door buddy Samuel to play with every day so when Mason moved in next door I was so happy. Now my son had a boy his age that he could play with. During the next few months my son mentioned a few times that Mason was not very nice to him at school. I just assumed it was because Mason did not play with Tyler at school but his cousins or kids from his own class instead. Then I received a call from Tyler’s teacher informing me … Continue reading →

Help Your Child Recognize Bullying

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This is a companion blog to my previous one, “Protect Your Special Needs Child from Bullying.” Children with special needs don’t always recognize what bullying “looks” like. That may be because rejection and cruelty has become all too common for them. Or maybe it’s just too difficult to judge the conduct and emotions of others. For example, it might be hard for a child with Asperger’s Disorder to determine whether someone is telling a friendly joke or laughing at him. Unfortunately, bullies will take advantage of these difficulties, putting our kids at risk. I looked around the internet for some … Continue reading →