Dealing With Bullies: Do's and Don'ts

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Dealing with Bullies Dos and Don'ts
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OVERVIEW

• The many researches on bullying have
  predominantly shown that bullying is not only
  limited to a particular place, but its practised
  everywhere and can be devastating to the victim's
  mental physical health. Bullying in
  schools/colleges/workplace has become an alarming
  issue in todays social setting, which impacts a
  person irrespective of age, gender, or
  background. Anti-bullying initiatives or groups
  are the need of the hour to stop bullying. Mostly
  it has been observed that bullying affects an
  individuals psychology and personality
  development during the foundation years, i.e., in
  schools. Here, parents or guardians need to play
  a crucial role they need to be extra vigilant
  and observe their childs behaviour and try to
  figure out whether he/she gets bullied in school
  or plays the role of a bully. Now lets
  understand more about how to deal with bullies in
  a better and effective way

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DOS OF BULLYING

• First, understand what bullying really is. You
  must learn the difference between a spontaneously
  rude or inconsiderate behaviour and actions that
  are intentionally cruel.
• Establish a connection with your child by having
  hearty talks and then try to understand the
  reason behind this behaviour. Maybe they are
  getting bullied at school and that is why they
  have started to behave the same. Collect the
  facts that others say about your child. After
  having identified the real reason, look for
  solutions or ways to stop this behaviour.

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DOS OF BULLYING

• Make time for your child. Try to listen to their
  problems seriously and more often. Also, make
  them understand that bullying others or being a
  silent victim to bullying is unacceptable.
• Teach your kids the ability to handle conflicts
  independently and with dignity. Make them learn
  and understand to keep a watch on their actions
  and behaviour. Talk often about kindness and
  empathy. Explain to them their many life-altering
  benefits and how they can practice them on a
  daily basis.

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DOS OF BULLYING

• Talk to the school management regularly and ask
  for your childs behavioural feedback. Support
  the measures/initiatives to stop bullying at
  school.
• Keep an eye on the friend circle of your child.
  They may be in a group that exhibits bullying
  behavior. Encourage your child to form groups or
  alliances with such people who stay away from
  bullying or any such kind of behaviour.
• You can even suggest movies/TV-series/events/shows
  that encourage your children to bring out their
  human side in their day-to-day chores more often.

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DONTS OF BULLYING

• If your children want to talk to you about
  bullying or any such issue, then do not turn a
  blind eye to them. Listen to them thoroughly and
  suggest ways to stop such kind of behaviour.
• Do not indulge in the blame game by looking for
  ways to blame someone else like blaming the
  school management or any third person for such
  behaviour. Rather try to reach the root cause of
  it so that bullying cant be repeated in future.

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DONTS OF BULLYING

• If your children resort to bullying behaviour,
  dont justify their behaviour that they might
  have acted in response or something like that.
  Explain to them that bullying in any form or
  being a silent victim to bullying is
  unacceptable. Encourage them to discuss such
  issues openly.
• Dont act like you know your childs behaviour
  and he/she cannot do that. Maybe you dont
  necessarily know how they behave outside or in
  front of their friends.
• Dont make positive comments about bullying
  behaviour, even jokingly, in front of your kids,
  as it might encourage them to keep doing the same.

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CONCLUSION

• Bullying is a sensitive issue and most of the
  times, unavoidable. Bullying has many faces and
  can happen to anyone, at any stage of life. In
  fact, with the advent of digital social media,
  bullying instances are increasing day-by-day.
  Resorting to proper guidance rather than forced
  control or coercion are suggestive anti-bullying
  strategies. Bullying does not take place when a
  group of members are empathetic and respectful
  towards each other and work towards finding
  cooperative ways to resolve disagreements and
  discords.

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