What can be done about elder care bullying?
Bullying doesn’t just occur at schools. It is reported in every level of society including in nursing homes. So how can we best protect the elderly from peer abuse? Here …
How to be cool despite being bullied
“Being cool” is often a tool used by bullied to ostracize their victims. What they don’t realize is that caring about whether you are cool or not isn’t cool. Someone …
Deltas and Bridges
How to use signals to help bullies and your child learn how to behave better. In The Bully Vaccine, I teach the use of operant conditioning as a way to …
Bullies aren’t very creative
It turns out that almost all verbal bullying (ie: insults) are about 6 basic things. This means that even though bullies like to insult people, they aren’t very creative in their insults. Perhaps if they watched more Monty Python or read the 7 page curse in Tristram Shandy they would be more creative. Of course, if they did those things, they probably wouldn’t be bullies in the first place.