Advisory

Caiden-Z sparrow club.pdf

Mindful Moments: https://vimeo.com/227543375

"Paying it Forward" with Acts of Kindness:

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/secret-santas-helpers/

Bullying Unit:

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.

In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:

  • An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people.
  • Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential to happen more than once.

Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, blackmail, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.

Various roles kids play:

  • Kids who Bully: These children engage in bullying behavior towards their peers.
  • Kids who are Bullied: These children are the targets of bullying behavior.
  • Kids who Assist: These children may not start the bullying or lead in the bullying behavior, but serve as an "assistant" to children who are bullying. These children may encourage the bullying behavior and occasionally join in.
  • Kids who Reinforce: These children are not directly involved in the bullying behavior but they give the bullying an audience. They will often laugh or provide support for the children who are engaging in bullying. This may encourage the bullying to continue.
  • Outsiders/Bystanders: These children remain separate from the bullying situation. They neither reinforce the bullying behavior nor defend the child being bullied but they are observers.
  • Kids who Defend: These children actively comfort the child being bullied and may come to the child's defense when bullying occurs.

An example of "Kids who Defend" (video, 1:54min): https://www.cbsnews.com/video/freshman-bullied-for-wearing-same-clothes-every-day-gets-gift-from-classmates/

Same kids being recognized on the Ellen Show (video, 7:21min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QntBkDFkiuY