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Easing the Teasing : Helping Your Child Cope with Name-Calling, Ridicule, and Verbal Bullying
Empowers young children with vital coping skills to help them manage teasing Easing the Teasing is a crucial reference for parents and educators who want to help teasing victims acquire the coping skills necessary to manage these painful incidents. Easing the Teasing provides elementary and junior high school kids with a repertoire of strategies to deflect and discourage teasing--including positive self-talk; ignoring; visualization; reframing the tease; complimenting or agreeing with the teaser; using humor; simply saying, "So?"; and asking adults for help.
- GenresParenting
266 pages, Paperback
First published June 24, 2002
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April 17, 2010
This had some good pointers, but it felt like it could have been a pamphlet, but was stretched out into a book.
Also, it focused on traditional name-calling "Four-eyes" whereas I notice kids tend to do more along the lines of ostracizing each other or whispering about each other. (Although I guess this is called "Easing the Teasing"!!! So teasing is the focus.)
Another thing is that it very much assumes that a child will come home and say, "Mom, Billy called me fat." Whereas I know with my son, he won't tell me a thing--I have to figure it out on my own.
There was one passage that I thought was a little insensitive. A child from another country (India?) wears sweatpants that are much too short. The child switches to normal jeans and the teasing stops. The author concludes that immigrants often don't know how to dress their children. I take offense at that. We live in a foreign country and my son dresses like other kids. I am very conscious of this.
Another thing, often foreign families want to retain their culture. I remember a girl in high school who was teased for wearing an earring in her nose--but giving up the earring would have meant giving up her culture. I could go on...a Peruvian friend explained to me that halter tops are common in Peru and that is why her daughter wears them even though they set her apart from other kids.
Also, it focused on traditional name-calling "Four-eyes" whereas I notice kids tend to do more along the lines of ostracizing each other or whispering about each other. (Although I guess this is called "Easing the Teasing"!!! So teasing is the focus.)
Another thing is that it very much assumes that a child will come home and say, "Mom, Billy called me fat." Whereas I know with my son, he won't tell me a thing--I have to figure it out on my own.
There was one passage that I thought was a little insensitive. A child from another country (India?) wears sweatpants that are much too short. The child switches to normal jeans and the teasing stops. The author concludes that immigrants often don't know how to dress their children. I take offense at that. We live in a foreign country and my son dresses like other kids. I am very conscious of this.
Another thing, often foreign families want to retain their culture. I remember a girl in high school who was teased for wearing an earring in her nose--but giving up the earring would have meant giving up her culture. I could go on...a Peruvian friend explained to me that halter tops are common in Peru and that is why her daughter wears them even though they set her apart from other kids.
February 2, 2010
Chapters 5, 6, and 8 and the list of recommended books in the back are worth reading. You can skip the rest.
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