Reporting is Just the First Step
Reporting a bully doesn’t make them stop. It is a necessary first step, but it’s just that, a first step. If you really want to stop bullying, you need a strategy.
You Can’t Wish Bullying Away
The way you become fearless is by actively doing what you need to do despite your fears. You confront them, decide you won’t let your fears control you and act accordingly.
What sort of education do kids need to deal with bullying?
The problem is that the most effective bullying prevention programs don’t help everyone. They help encourage kids to be “upstanders” but they don’t really do much to help kids who are dealing with a chronic bullying problem. Once bullying has become chronic, what the kids need now is to be taught how to get it to stop.
Let’s Get To Work
I am heartbroken every time someone tells me their child is being bullied. I feel like I failed them by not getting them this information sooner. I get mad because we have 70 plus years of research that tell us exactly what we need to teach and yet – we still aren’t teaching it!!!!