Bully Prevention Partners gives some insight on who is most likely to become a target of a bully. While everyone can become a target, it is like a bully can smell out certain characteristics that say to them, “this person can be my victim’. Learn what they are here and in the coming days we will discuss more about the target / victim of bullying behavior.

What Should I Do If My Child Is A Bully?

In day 12 we answer the questions on the child displaying bullying behavior.  Should you punish them or is that counter to our ultimate goal of creating peace.  What do they need to practice and learn so they can stop the bullying behavior and have the courage to stand up for others?

Join Bully Prevention Partners as we tackle this issue with others.

There are some simple questions that you can ask yourself and your children no matter their age, to determine what beliefs you hold and see if your beliefs promote or prevent bullying?  Find them on Bully Prevention Partners or hear them on this video message.

Children can be taught important bullying prevention skills which are also important life skills. They can be used as a guide to solving social problems and help them to know how to be assertive while showing empathy.
Bully Prevention Partners presents Day 10 of 31 Days of Bully Prevention Messages. Join Bully Prevention Partners for more information.

Besides hurting others, bullies damage themselves, short term and long term each time they hurt others. The effects last long into adulthood and include some shocking findings. This is Day 9 in our series examining the effect of bullying behavior on the bully.

For 31 days we are looking at the subject of bullying and bullying prevention. Today we are looking at the differences in age groups, including how we may see warning signs in preschool children. Identifying these signs gives us the opportunity to work on social skills and empathy at a young age.

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Today we look at an overview of the three parties involved in bullying. In the next few days we will look at each party in detail along with what the effects of bullying can have on everyone involved. Statistics show that by the time a child gets to middle school they have all seen, heard of, been the target of bullying or been the bully. The effects of this is important for all of us to be aware of.

Cyberbullying is the fastest growing bullying method for students as young as 6 and 7 years old.  Learn to protect your children.

I have started to record 31 messages about bullying and posting them on the Bully Prevention Partners website.  The fourth one posted today talks about the reasons children give for waiting a long time or not report at all the bullying that might be taking place to them.  For the rest of this month we will discuss this subject and I encourage everyone who is interested in this subject to join in the conversation on creating a culture of peace in our schools and community.

Teaching character and life skills to students

Integrity calls for doing what is right even when it is very hard or when there may be results that do not favor yourself.  The link below is about a girl that spoke up when it was difficult, because it was the right thing to do, and the results helped her classmate, but led to her being bullied.  Here is an excerpt from the story.

He’s a seventh-grader at Tripp Middle School in Turner, active in sports and school plays, friends would say a nice guy. And nearly every day classmates called him “fag,” “faggot” and “queer.” Nearly every day someone punched him, at least one time in the crotch. Nearly every day he was ridiculed, harassed, bullied.

Amanda Fields had never seen anything like it in all of her 13 years.
“Random people. People he doesn’t even talk to would come up to him and say, ‘Hey, fag’ or just kind of use very not good language,” the eighth-grader said.

The boy is a friend of hers. For months she watched his torment and feared for his safety. She worried he’d hurt himself if the harassment got too much.  Then, one day this spring, she and a small group of friends told a guidance counselor about all of it. The bullies — more than five, Amanda believes, and less than 15 — were suspended.
Citing student privacy concerns, school administrators refused to talk about the situation or confirm the suspensions. The boy and his parents declined to speak publicly. Other Tripp Middle School students wrote about the incident online, but would not talk about it to the newspaper.

But Amanda would. She agreed to tell the story that started out as the boy’s and has rapidly become her own.  Because since she and her friends told the guidance counselor, Amanda’s gotten bullied, too.

To read the whole story go to:  Standing Up: One Girl, One Friend, Many Bullies

Now I share this story because there will come times when we need that kind of courage.  Each of us can ask ourselves if we have that kind of courage.  Do I have the integrity for the principles, values, ethics, and morals that I stand for, that would make me stand up for what is right, just like Amanda?

Being a good friend is partly about standing up to peer pressure and for what is right.

“If you have integrity nothing else matters, if you don’t have integrity nothing else matters.”  Alan Simpson