Matt Hogan’s Reviews > Easing the Teasing : Helping Your Child Cope with Name-Calling, Ridicule, and Verbal Bullying > Status Update

Although most parents do not have a degree in education, all parents are teachers. We teach our children valuable life lessons every day.

Kids learn from what they live with on a day-to-day basis. A child who is physically or verbally aggressive at school is often imitating behaviors and words that he observes or experiences within his family.

While I don't advocate censorship, I do advocate careful monitoring by parents.

Summary of the ten strategies.

The first thing I tell kids who witness teasing is that the very least they can do is not show any support for the teaser.

We must strongly encourage a bystander or witness to intervene, show support, or ask for help. It is imperative that children take an active role when they witness or observe a classmate being teased.

Children whose parents convey empathy to them are more likely to convy empathy to others.

And in an age where families move around a lot and kids often opt for solitary activities like computer games, far too many kids are becoming deficient in these social skills.

A popular person vs. a friend