You remove the reward by owning your awesomeness. They will escalate. Get frustrated and eventually leave you alone. They will get worse – before they give up. This is to be expected. It’s part of the process. It even has a name: Extinction Burst and it’s well studied
If parent’s know their kids are being bullied, could they help them make it stop, or help them address the mental health problems associated with bullying, including preventing possible suicide? …
No one wants to see their kid bullied. It puts a pit right in the center of your stomach. There is little you can do to help them, but that …
Learning how to calm yourself down so that a) you don’t succumb to the fear and b) so you can respond strategically to get a bully to leave you alone is an important life skill to learn. And it is learn-able.
