Unfortunately, bullying has been around since the beginning of TIME!
Teasing is apart of the human experience, almost every child experience verbal abuse. Teasing becomes bullying when it is repetitive or when there is a conscious intent to hurt another child, WORDS can cause pain. There are three different forms of bullying; verbal bullying when making threats, name-calling, psychological bullying excluding children, spreading rumors, or physical bullying hitting, pushing, taking a child’s possessions.
Researchers estimate that 20 to 30 percent of school-age children are involved in bullying incidents, as either perpetrators or victims.
Bullying can begin as early as preschool and intensify during transitional stages, such as starting school in 1st grade or going into middle school.
How to help your child find strategies, first and foremost improve on your listening skills, and give your child space to talk, and truly listen to your child. If your child has trouble verbalizing their feelings, read a story about children being teased or bullied. You can also use puppets, dolls, or stuffed animals to encourage a young child to act out problems. This will help your child to learn problem-solving skills, you can even try role-play situations and teach your child ways to respond.
Reading and fostering a closer communicative relationship with your child will encourage a Confident Child.
A Must Read!!!
Recommended by Karen Clarke/ www.mysonmatters.org
Simple in its style and illustration but with a subject that impacts us all, B is for Bully is aimed at teaching children, ages 4 and up, about the harmful effects of bullying.
Recently, Bullying has gotten national publicity due to the increasing number of incidents occurring in schools across the nation. The National Education Association, the largest professional body in the U.S.A that represents public schools has conducted a number of studies in the past years with conclusive results that Bullying is a serious issue that parents, educators and the community on a whole need to take more seriously. These are readily available at www.nea.org.
‘B is for Bully‘ fits in bridging the gap with existing books on the market by conveying the subject- matter in straight-forward language and clear pictures that parents and kids can easily use as a fun and instructional learning tool. In essence, it answers the following questions – who can be a bully, targets of bullies, why bullies bully and who to tell.
While this book is in no way a conclusive guide on the subject-matter of bullying, my hope is that it will bring more awareness to this topic and encourage everyone to take a stand. Whether directly or indirectly, we all are impacted by bullying.
B is for Bully is written by Jacqueline Brathwaite and illustrated by Gabhor Utomo
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KClarke, Executive Producer of Caribbean Melange, LLC – Radio Program, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia the International HUB for Trade & Commerce. We are syndicated on WIGO AM 1570 Atlanta and live-streaming on www.caribbeanmelange.com. Our theme is based on our diverse population bring together understanding of our global cosmopolitan culture. Our goal is to keep you connected with news, music, business opportunities, and lifestyle changes that will motivate and empower you.
