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PARENTS: DO YOU WISH TO FIND WAYS TO HELP BULLY-PROOF YOUR CHILD? HOW CAN WE HELP? 

Counseling News | December 2022 

You can talk to your kids about their power of "SO!"

You can be a H.E.R.O. role model for your kids!

You can teach them how to be an upstander & uplifter 

You can help foster a confident self-concept 

You can help your student practice safe Social Know that kids who bully don't feel good about themselves; bully behavior is really an internal struggle. 

The easiest way to make sure our kids aren't the kind of  kids who make fun of others at school is to

be a parent/teacher who doesn't make fun of others. Kids who bully don't feel good about

themselves because happy people don't hurt hearts, right? Mental health checks on your students

are very important. We know it is very hard not to take someone's bad words or actions personally,

but honestly, when we teach kids that the bully is hurting and taking it out on them for no reason, it

helps lessen the hit to their self-concept. It also helps us take action to help both the bully and the

victim. We ABSOLUTELY need to know if someone is being a BULLY (repeatedly saying/doing mean

things to a child). We cannot assist if we do not know it is happening. We tell kids that it is not

snitching if you tell an adult at school what is happening because we know that bullies are people

who do not feel good about themselves and therefore they need someone to check in on them

too so that they get the help they need. We tell all kids to be their unique selves and not to give

bad words and comments a hug and think or read about them over and over again. They need to

step over those actions and words, don't even spend energy kicking the comments to the curb,

but rather try to stick around people who are good for them. (practice safe Social - add friends

they personally know to their social media and know when to remove). Kids also should use their power of "SO!"

Here's one way someone can use their power of "SO!"(hey 4 eyes...my sister endured this when she

got glasses in 4th grade). Her response: "Yeah, SO I need glasses! I need to see!" If we help build

up kids by choosing to have uplifting conversations at home and school and if we are an

upstander ourselves, we can help all kids feel safe and happy at school.

Thanks parents for all you do for our kids!

Thank you Mrs. Hunt from Tri-Valley School District for sharing this great information.