How Assertiveness Helps Prevent Bullying

Bullying can leave life-long emotional scars. Even at a young age, aggressive/dominant children and the weaker willed allies use a variety of strategies to isolate, embarrass and abuse  their prey.  The kids on the receiving end of this kind of mistreatment seldom report it out of shame or fear....

How Do Bullies Choose Their Targets?

A child may stand apart from their peers for any number of reasons. Along with differences  come the risk of attracting bullies. There are a lot of possible reasons a kid might get teased: name,  height, weight, hair style, ethnic heritage, religion, etc. What’s interesting is that no matter what the...

How To Contact A Bully’s Parents

Most folks can remember being teased or laughed at when they were the child; its the universal experience.  However when those kinds of instances  become chronic, the consequences may be dire. These days, on top of  face to face conflict, children have to deal with the anonymous threats of cyber-bullying...

Why Anti-Bullying Programs in School Can’t Protect Your Child

From the Boston Globe: Notwithstanding the widespread adoption of various school-based anti-bullying curricula, the empirical evidence with regard to their preventive value is somewhat disappointing. An analysis of anti-bullying interventions implemented over a 25-year time period, from 1980 to 2004,...

Beware The Crusaders

Crusader has a dynamic ring to it.  It speaks of a person of action,with a cause, driven by passion.  Someone who does good. Everyone has a favorite crusader. Before becoming president, Theodore Roosevelt was a crime-buster. He was police commissioner of New York where he not only fought departmental...