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Apr 28, 2004 What is the answer to dealing with bullies in school? I wish I knew, recently I had to deal with this subject with my 12 year old niece. Sarah is a great kid, she’s very bright (and yes I would say that even if I wasn’t related to her), she’s just very fun to be around. She used to love school, but kids are harsh to each other to say the least. It seems to me that it has always been this way but in the last few years it has gotten worse. Sarah’s situation was that some girls in her 6th grade class were taunting her, I won’t go into the exact details but she felt threatened by them enough to not want to go to school any longer. I had a hard time dealing with hearing what was happening to this sweet girl because I had such a hard time all throughout my junior high and high school years. In face I started tearing up as I thought that I did not want her or any other kid for that matter to have to go through anything near what I went through. It would break my heart to have her hurt as I had in the past. So what to say to her? I really didn’t know. My boyfriend offered some really good advice to explain to Sarah that these girls were feeding off of her reactions to whatever they were saying and she should not give them the response that they wanted. Also to talk to a trusted teacher at the school. I did tell her this when we talked but it’s hard to explain the psychology of bullies to her. I knew definitely what I tried to do never worked, which was to try to just ignore what was happening or being said to me back then. The good news is that this episode of Sarah being bullied is over but the way schools are these days she’ll most likely face it again, I think talking about it and just staying connected to her, just talking about anything and everything she wants to is a great idea. So if anyway has some suggestions about how to help kids through this bully problem I’d love to hear them. ------------ Email Joy Frakes: JOYFRAKES@YAHOO.COM Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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