Bullying: is your Kid a Victim?
Posted December 31st, 2008Karen Cook asked: TV news anchors are reporting this daily. We’ve read the newspaper headlines. We can’t believe it has all come to this. It’s a cause of suicide. Violence and murder. Now we can’t ignore it anymore.It’s bullying! And, it has to be stopped.Make no mistake. If adults were abused in the same manner [...]
How to Help your Child Handle the Cyber Bullies
Posted December 31st, 2008Sue Atkins asked: Cyber bullying has for far too long been pushed under the carpet. So the government’s crackdown on this issue is most welcome by educators, parents and most of all the children who have experienced this terrible form of bullying.This is a subject that I feel passionately about because I have experienced first [...]
Low Self Esteem and Its Impact on a Child’s Psyche
Posted December 30th, 2008Naresh Belliyappa asked: Low self esteem can begin to develop early in childhood, long before the concept is even understood by the child. Most of the traits underlying our personality are developed in early childhood. This means that a child with feelings of low self esteem is likely to carry them into adulthood without realizing [...]
Parental Control Software – Know What Your Child is Doing Online
Posted December 21st, 2008Brian asked: If you do not know what your child is doing online they could be in danger. In this new digital age it is hard to know what your child is doing while online. As a parent parent you must know what to do for child internet safety. Parental control software will help you [...]
Bullies Need Love Too
Posted December 17th, 2008Stuart McConnell asked: If you truly want to help a victim of bullying you need to help the bully first. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” ~ Isaac Newton Imagine you were mugged one night coming home late. Would you ever go near that area again? Probably not. Would you start [...]
Valuable Ways You Can Help Your Child Succeed in School
Posted December 15th, 2008Carol Forsloff asked: You can help your child obtain a quality education regardless of his or her ability or the conditions of his/her life and yours. Here are some words of wisdom for both regular and special education parents, some of which you might have heard before, but most of these deserve repeating. Although this [...]
Cyber-Bullying Coming To A Cell Phone Near You
Posted December 13th, 2008Shimon Sandler asked: Approximately half of U.S. students are impacted by bullying each school day. It happens on buses, in the cafeteria, gym, hallways, playground, and classroom. The most frequent form bullying takes is words (teasing, taunting, ridiculing, name-calling, and gossip) – not blows. This type of bullying happens in the “physical” world and that [...]
Child Stress Management Without Stressful Parenting
Posted December 8th, 2008Eren asked: STRESS FREE MANAGING OF STRESSED CHILDREN & TEENAGERS IN PARENTING(Based on author’s site www.geocities.com/chlstrs)Parents’ child related stress extends to coping with children’s. Child stress is very common.Pregnancy rates high on the official stress-scale and mothers sometimes suffer also ‘baby blues’. But, also, parents have to be alert to child stress symptoms and cope [...]
Stop the Cyber Bullies From Troubling Your Child
Posted December 8th, 2008Bertil Hjert asked: Cyber bullying is a term used for harassment, embarrassment, humiliation or threatening faced by a child, preteen or teen to another child via the World Wide Web. One can also use other digital technologies or mobile phones for the same.The term is justified only when minors are involved on both sides. In [...]
Tips for Helping your Child Deal With Bullies!
Posted December 6th, 2008L. J. Allen asked: While it is natural for a child to undergo the occasional teasing from their brother or sister or have a disagreement with a friend on the playground, there are other instances when teasing becomes unacceptable. Bullying is an intentional action against another with the goal to cause physical, emotional, or verbal [...]