Category: Bullying and Peer Relationships

Finding out your child is being bulliedis one of the most distressing experiencesof parenting. The impulse to fix itimmediately — to call the school, toconfront the other child’s parents,to tell your child exactly what to do —is completely understandable. The researchon effective responses to bullying suggeststhat the most helpful approaches aremore nuanced than these instinctive…

One of the most painful realities of childhood bullyingis that most children who are being bullied do not telltheir parents. Research consistently finds that themajority of bullied children stay silent — out of shame,out of fear that telling will make things worse, out ofnot wanting to worry their parents, or because they havebeen explicitly told…