A Parent's Guide to Helping Children with Bullying

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Every parent worries that their child will become the victim of bullying. And for good reason. At some point, most kids will be bullied. Bullying is a problem that can be solved with education. Most adults, and therefore most parents, were never taught how to effectively deal with bullies so they don’t know how to help their children and they are left feeling helpless and their children are left struggling. The good news is that teaching kids how to get bullies to leave them alone is actually quite simple. The problem is that most parents don’t know what these skills are, let alone, how to teach them.

What will you learn in this course?

The skills I teach are based on operant conditioning. These techniques are well established and work so well, they are used by every animal trainer in the country and are the basis for most successful weight loss programs. It is just a matter of applying these behavioral modification principles to the problem of bullying.

If you let me, I will teach you all you need to know to apply the principles of positive and negative reinforcement to the specific problem of retraining a bully to no longer bully so that you in turn can teach these techniques to your child.

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apply the principles of positive and negative reinforcement to the specific prob

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Multilevel

Who should take this online course

parents and educators

Chapter 1: A Parent's Guide to Bullying
- 1 Lesson 1: Introduction to Bullying: A Science Based Approach 07:56 min
  
  DescriptionWhen it comes to dealing with a bullying situation, know that you aren’t alone. Even if you have tried to get the school to help you in the past and it didn’t work, that doesn’t mean that the school doesn’t care or won’t help you. It is just nearly impossible for them to get the bullying to stop once it is established. The key to being successful is being realistic. Often when parents first report problems they expect the school to magically make the problem disappear. It doesn’t work that way. You can’t just report something and have it stop. It takes time and a concerted effort by not just the school, but also by your child over a period of time to get a bullying situation under control. As frustrated as you may be, taking a realistic and cooperative approach will help you mobilize the school on your child’s behalf. This lesson includes a bullying log, a video, along with detailed information on how to approach the school, who in the school can help, and how to get the school to actually help you and your child end bullying.
- 2 Lesson 2: How to Talk to Your Child's School About Bullying 25:01 min
  
  Description<div><p>When it comes to dealing with a bullying situation, know that you aren’t alone. Even if you have tried to get the school to help you in the past and it didn’t work, that doesn’t mean that the school doesn’t care or won’t help you. It is just nearly impossible for them to get the bullying to stop once it is established.</p><p>The key to being successful is being realistic. Often when parents first report problems they expect the school to magically make the problem disappear. It doesn’t work that way. You can’t just report something and have it stop. It takes time and a concerted effort by not just the school, but also by your child over a period of time to get a bullying situation under control. As frustrated as you may be, taking a realistic and cooperative approach will help you mobilize the school on your child’s behalf.</p><p>This lesson includes a bullying log, a video, along with detailed information on how to approach the school, who in the school can help, and how to get the school to actually help you and your child end bullying.</p></div>
- 3 Lesson 3: What to Do if Your Child is Accused of Bullying 22:42 min
  
  DescriptionIt’s hard to hear that your child has been abusing another child. It is even harder to know how to get them to stop. Are they being falsely accused? How can you find out and how can you best support them either way? This lesson is designed to guide you through the steps you need to take when your child is accused of bullying. It isn’t easy to learn your child has not been behaving properly and getting them to stop isn’t easy. But it can be done if you know the steps to take. First, you need to find out exactly what they are being accused of. You need to find out whether or not the allegations are true or not. If they are true, you then need to develop a plan of action that will help your child learn more pro-social ways of dealing with their emotions and with conflict so that they will stop resorting to aggression as a way to get what they want. This lesson is based on the operant conditioning techniques taught in the book "The Bully Vaccine" and includes, a video, along with detailed information on how to help your child if they are accused of bullying. This includes detailed information on how you, as their parent, can best support them if they are falsely accused and more importantly, how to get them to stop if it turns out they really have been bullying other kids.
Chapter 2: Bonus Materials
- 1 Bullying Documentation Log for Downloading
- 2 7 Ways to Help Your Child With Bullying
- 3 Tip Sheet for Helping Your Child Cope With Bullying
- 4 Bullying Flow Chart: Responses That Work
- 5 Bonus: What if Your Child Doesn't Want to do This? 06:42 min
- 6 Bonus: How Long Does This Take? 04:01 min
- 7 Bonus: How to Feel Better 09:35 min

The Teachlr

Jennifer Hancock

Founder: Humanist Learning Systems

Jennifer Hancock is the author of several best selling books and the founder of Humanist Learning Systems where she offers online personal and professional development programs. What makes her unique is that she teaches humanistic approaches grounded in dignity and compassion coupled with science based behavioral modification techniques to create positive workplace cultures that eliminate unwanted behaviors like bullying, harassment and discrimination while positively reinforcing the behavior

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A Parent's Guide to Helping Children with Bullying

Learn how behavioral science helps your child to cope with bullying.

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