We have heard of stories about instances of bullying where the victims ultimately have to tragically end their young lives only to escape such torments. Horrible for any parent to read or hear in the news, but it is a sad reality. Bullying has been with us for so many years, in the school or at the workplace. Everywhere you go there will always be someone trying to bully you. The worse part today is because of the onslaught of technology, bullying has evolved over the years. Bullies are found in the halls of the school, in the canteen, in the school bus and now even in the internet. Cyber bullying has risen to an alarming number and still we could not do anything about it. Much like we could not do anything to prevent its physical counterpart.
As parents we can do everything to prevent cases of violent bullying against our children escalating to a horrible consequence. That is, to let our children open up with us everything that has been going on in their lives. We must be our children’s friends apart from the parents that we are. We must know when and how to listen to them in order for our children to be open with us. In this sense, we could guide them in situations when they are taunted, teased or bullied. We could easily make the necessary action to prevent further bullying on our child just because we know of the situation first hand.
Encouraging you kid to open up with you can be an essential tool to prevent any kind of bullying to ever happening to your child. Because even before things go out of hand, you already have the knowledge of the situation beforehand and this gives you more time to plan and act on it, before things escalate to an even bigger dilemma.
http://www.news.com.au/national/bullying-survey-victim-felt-isolated-and-ashamed/story-e6frfkvr-1225835405490
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