Bullying: How To Cope With Bullying At School

By ARC Counselling

Bullying can be a major problem for children. It is important that we help them learn to cope with bullying and develop skills to become resilient.
This ebook is a short guide to recognizing the problem and finding solutions that may suit your situation. In this guide we examine;
What is bullying?
How can bullying affect you?
How bullying affects others...
Why do people bully?
Signs of bullying.
Ways to approach the topic with your children.
Why are some kids bullied?
The bystander.
My child is a bully.
Schools can help.
Teaching your children.
Listening to your children.
Stay calm.
What do you want?
About ARC Counselling.

This ebook explains some signs and symptoms to look out for when you suspect your child may be being bullied, provides some useful strategies to talk to them and discusses ways you can interact with your child's school to help the problem.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ARC Counselling
• Release date: Feb 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310070518

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Bullying

How to help your children become resilient to bullying.

ARC Counselling 2015.

Bullying

What’s in this short guide?

What is bullying

How can bullying affect you?

How bullying affects others…

Why do people bully?

Signs of bullying

Ways to approach the topic

Why are some kids bullied?

The bystander

My child is a bully

Schools can help

Teaching your children

Listening to your children

Stay calm

What do you want?

About ARC Counselling

What is bullying?

Let’s be clear, bullying is wrong. It shouldn’t be accepted, and it shouldn’t be excused. Each person has their own life path to travel along, and that path doesn’t mean anyone has the right to make life difficult, uncomfortable or plain miserable for someone else. Bullying is a complex issue, which, no doubt, requires a complex series of resolutions. There isn’t an easy answer, but we have to do something. We have to try.

Bullying is any purposeful behaviour that makes a person feel sad, angry, upset, scared, worried, stressed, isolated or lonely. It is a terrible form of behaviour that we, as a society need to combat and deal with adequately. It is essentially repeated and intentional through the use of targeted actions, words, or physical violence to cause misery and unhappiness in others. It is usually the case that the bully exerts their perceived power or influence over the bullied.

To be honest, having worked as a school counsellor for several years, bullying seems to be at the forefront of negative issues within the school amongst kids. Bullying is behaviour that contextually goes by other names as well (but is not limited to); racism, discrimination, homophobia, sexism, extortion, or cyberbullying. Repeatedly calling someone racist names is bullying. Racial bullying. These acts all resemble each other and can have devastating effects on people, especially young children. But again, each of these issues have their own circumstances and require their own solutions. Having said that, I will say that this book will