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About Bullies
May 9, 2014
After dinner, rest. After supper, walk.
-Arab Proverb
-Arab Proverb
Psychology Today ("Bully Pulpit," May/June 2014) offers these observations about bullying:
- Bullying is not garden-variety aggression. It is a deliberate and repeated attempt to cause harm to others of lesser power.
- At age 8, children start to understand who has power and status and where they stand in the social network - and start experimenting with power.
- Bullies engage in a "shopping process" to seek out children who are younger, smaller or weaker. Children who become victims are often submissive even before they are picked on.
- Studies show that harshly punitive home environments can breed children who are at risk of becoming aggressive, emotionally dysregulated victims.
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I think that what schools need from parents to help children succeed is not so much "involvement" as it is "support." When parents give children strong messages of the value of education and the importance of doing schoolwork, participating in classroom activities, and so on, children are more likely to succeed. Conversely, when parents are distrustful of the school and voice that to the child, the child cooperates less with the educational process.
The biggest implication is that schools must do our part to create this kind of support from parents. We must be welcoming to parents, as well as to children. We must be open and transparent. In short, we must be professionals.
Pennington Presbyterian Nursery School
PENNINGTON, United States - New, United States
My niece, who is a freshman at Temple University, has just acted in a play called, "Odd Girl Out, The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls", which is partially based on the book of the same name. In the play, the actors share monologues created from actual interviews with girls who described their own experiences being bullied. It is a powerful play and it brought back memories of the lingering effects of bullying that haunt me to this day. (The name Hope was ripe for teasing and insults in the 60's and 70's, believe me!) I hope that this play, your article and other, repeated voices speaking out about bullying, will create a new culture - one in which bullying is not tolerated and in which the bullied and the bullies are helped to live lives that are filled with cooperation and respect.
Metropolitan Family Services
Chicago, IL, United States
We talk a lot about children being bullies, but what about adult bullies in ECE, or any profession for that matter. Some staff are actually afraid to talk to their supervisors, or express their opinions because of what might happen. Children bullies become Adult bullies. Bullying is terrible at any age, but especially for adults who think that it is o.k. because they are the "boss." Bullies don't understand if they are pleasant it feels so much better. If they want respect they just need to treat other people with respect. You don't have to be a bully to get people to do what you want, you just need to let people know you respect their opinion, even though you may not agree with it. We can agree to disagree without consequences.
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