Bullying

What is bullying

Bullying is when someone keeps doing or saying things to have power over another person.

Some of the ways they bully other people are by:-

• Calling them names
• Saying or writing horrible things about them
• Leaving them out of activities
• Not talking to them
• Threatening them
• Making them feel uncomfortable or scared
• Taking or damaging their things
• Hitting or kicking them
• Making them do things they don't want to do
• Make them not want to go to school
• Asking them for money or even making them begin to steal so they can pay the bully

Bullying is wrong behaviour which makes the person being bullied feel afraid or uncomfortable.

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How to stop bullying?

• If you are worried that your child is being bullied, ask him/her directly

• Take bullying seriously and find out the facts when told about an incident of bullying

• Don't agree to keep the bullying a secret

• Suggest to teachers that they contact one of the anti-bullying organisations listed below

• Talk with teacher or headteacher, if it is school bullying

• Suggest to schools that they Institute appropriate programmes to combat bullying

• Get other parents together and discuss ways to stop the bullying

• Talk to the parent governors at your school and suggest a school policy on bullying

• Help children practise strategies such as shouting no, walking with confidence and running away

• Give your child a chance to vent his/her feelings about being bullied

• Arrange to meet your child, if the bullying is happening on the way to or from school

• Ask that the bullies be kept at school until everyone has had a chance to get home

• If you feel it would help your children's confidence, ask them if they would like to take self?defence classes

• Check that your child is not inviting the bullying by some obnoxious
  habit, such as spitting, picking his nose, etc

• Keep a written diary of all incidents

• Invite children over to help your child make friends

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Other related links on bullying

• http://www.kidscape.org.uk/

  Kidscape is a registered charity committed to keeping children safe from harm or abuse.
  
  Or contact them on:

KIDSCAPE HELPLINE FOR PARENTS OF BULLIED CHILDREN

Monday - Friday, 10am - 4pm

Tel: 0171 354 8321

• http://www.bullying.co.uk

  A registered charity run by a mother with personal experience of school bullying.

• http://www.antibully.org.uk/www.htm

  More related links to anti-bullying sites around the world