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Stepping In

Bullying and violence are very difficult issues to deal with. It can be heartbreaking to learn that your child has been bullied, and frustrating if he or she is the one doing the bullying. But with positive intervention, you can help improve the situation.

If your child is prepared to deal with negative situations, he or she will be better able to handle bullying, and may even have a positive influence on the bully. And if you know when to step in, you can help prevent further violence from occurring, no matter whose child is involved.

We Recommend…

  • The Bully Free Classroom — With over 100 prevention and intervention strategies, this book for teachers and administrators will help you create a classroom free of bullying.

Useful Links…

  • www.StopBullying.gov — StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on how kids, teens, young adults, parents, educators and others in the community can prevent or stop bullying.
  • Cyberbullying — The National Crime Prevention Council provides a wealth of information on cyberbullying and what you can do about it.
 

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2012-03-29 09:41.

Let’s face it people, we gave up the best defence we had against bullying. Until the ban on paddling in schools, bullying was a problem but not rampant. If a child knew they would have to endure the embarrasment of a paddling and then must face their “supporters” actually laughing at them, they would usually at the least think twice about what they were about to do.

Nobody likes bullying, however these children feed off of the attention gained from other would be bullies “supproters”. Talking nicely and 30 minutes of after school detention just does not cut it and is ineffective at best.

My son is tormented at school everyday and can find no relief. He looks to me for answers and I have none because I once believed all that tell the teacher and administration crap and it only makes things worse because their hands are tied almost as much as mine.

If you think all these strategies for dealing with bullies you read about will help, then you are in denial yourself. Most of these articles were probably written by people who don’t even have children, or at the least are educated beyond common sence. Make the punishment fit the crime, and let the bullies have a dose of the humiliation they so readily deal out themselves. Until then the problem will only get worse. Talk you your law makers to make punishment for bullies real punishment not just a pink slip that they can brag about to their supporters.

Remember this, being nice to a bully only re-enforces their behavior. Bullying is a battle of wills. Our lawmakers and school systems along with the “Good Idea Faery” have ruined our children and we need to get back to something that actually works at least as a deterent. Give control of the classroom back to the teacher and authorize them to take appropriate action to stop this without fear of loosing their jobs or ending up smeared by the liberal media. Let’s back them up.