Bullying represents a serious problem to some children. Here are some places on the Word Wide Web where you can find ideas and information related to that topic:
Web Sites Devoted to the Topic:
Bully B'Ware. This site gives a very complete treatment of the topic, primarily from a school perspective.
Dr Ken Rigby's Bullying Pages
What's Bullying?This short site answers such questions as "What is Bullying?" and "What can you do if you are being bullied?"
http://dickens.vsb.bc.ca/Bully.htm
BulliesThis site not only defines bullying, but it gives causes and consequences of bullying, suggestions for working with bullies and victims, and what schools and parents can do.
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/yf/famsci/fs570w.htm
No Bully. This is how they handle the problem in New Zealand.
Advice for Victims of Bullies
Bullying: A Survival Guide. Guidelines from the British Broadcasting Corporation dealing with all aspects of bullying.
http://www2.bbc.co.uk/education/bully/
Dealing With a Bully in the Dojo. From perhaps a surprising source (Black Belt Magazine), this brief article offers practical ideas on how a young person can deal with bullying in a place where he/she is supposed to be having fun.
http://www.blackbeltmag.com/bbkids/features/bully/
Defeat the Bully Without Fighting. People sometimes think martial arts instructors advocate fighting as a first line of self-defense, but this article shows that is not the case.
http://www.blackbeltmag.com/bbkids/empty/tehm5.html
Bullying by Dr. Z. A. Marini. This is written for children with serious illnesses, under the assumption that they "need more than medicine to be well." However, the simplicity and directness of the presentation make it useful for other children as well.
http://www.aladdincharity.org/bullying.html
Advice for Bullies
Advice for Teachers
Bullying at School Information. An excellent summary of research and guidelines from the Scottish Council for Research in Education.
http://www.scre.ac.uk/bully/index.html
Keeping Schoolyards Safe from Bullies. In it's official monthly newspaper the American Psychological Association publishes relatively informal reports on the work of some of its members. This one supplies some useful insights and guidelines related to bullying.
http://www.uncg.edu/edu/ericcass/bullying/DOCS/bullies.htm
Punish the Bully &emdash; Not the Victim. Although this article is badly formatted, it presents a very good point: that teachers often respond to bullying by removing the victim from the situation, which is often tantamount to punishment of the wrong person.
http://edreview.camrev.com.au/bullylinfoot.html
Bullyproof Your Classroom. These are excellent guidelines from the Kansas National Educational Association.
http://www.knea.org/strengthen/bullyproof.html
Study Finds Boy Bullies Popular; Girl Bullies Not. A summary of research on the topic from one of America's finest institutions of higher education.
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/9804.Hess.bullies.html
Taking the Bully by the Horns by Kathy Noll. This is an excellent summary of important ideas from the author's book by this same title.
http://k-6educators.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa060198.htm
Advice for Parents
Focus on Family &emdash; Is Your Child a Bully?. This article by Kathy Nestby focuses on the family and asks "Is your child a bully?"
http://www.nevadaiowa.com/journal/archives/journal093099/columns/family.html
Teaching Children Not To Be &emdash; Or Be Victims Of &emdash; Bullies. Good advice from the Cooperative Extension, University of Nebraska, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
http://www.nauticom.net/www/cokids/bullies.html
Bullying &emdash; How to Stop It. This article deals with how to teach children not to be - or to be victims of bullies.
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/family/nf309.htm
Beating the Bully. Practical guidelines from the Better Homes and Gardens Guide to Parenting by John Rosemond.
http://www.bhglive.com/features/parentguide/rose93-96/rosm94-09B.html
Parent Tips on Bullies. These guidelines come from the Hendersonville (Tennessee) Police Department.
http://www.hendersonville-pd.org/PreventionTips/Bullies.html
Bullying and Sexual Harassment Information. Very good series of links about bullying, sexual harassment, and cyber stalking for both children and adults.
http://www.datehookup.com/content-bullying-and-sexual-harassment-information.htm
Bullying and Victimization: The Problems and Solutions for School-aged children. This is a well-researched set of information and guidelines developed by a Canadian organization called The Six-to-Twelve Committee of the National Crime Prevention Council. The Council's motto is "Preventing Crime by Investing in Families.
http://www.crime-prevention.org/ncpc/publications/children/violence/index.html
Bullying in the Playground. Excerpts from a message board (Canadian Parents Online) in which parents and "experts" discuss this problem.
http://forums.sympatico.ca/WebX/WebX.cgi?14@@.ee9dd5e
Confronting Bullies. These are practical guidelines for just about everybody.
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/052697/0526box.html
Dealing With Your Child's Bullies. The author of this essay has no real credentials, other than having survived merciless teasing as a child herself. It's a pretty good essay.
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:12345/~at816/bullies.html
Bullying - Everyone's Problem. Tips from the Alberta (Canada) Teachers Association to help parents deal with bullying when it comes to their attention.
http://www.uncg.edu/edu/ericcass/bullying/DOCS/safe1.htm
Parents can help their kids shrug off school bully. A good article from the Milwaukee Sentinel.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/sunday/lifestyle/0920polly.stm
Safe Child: Bullies. This is a short discussion and some guidelines derived from The Safe Child Book, which is reviewed below.
Exemplary School Policies
Miscellaneous Online Articles
A Schoolyard Bully No More. Well-written article from the weekend edition of USA Today.
Discipline Problems Linked to Low Scores. Short summary of a research report.
http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,1-3704,00.html
Bullying and Peer Abuse in Residential Child Care. A review of the literature on this topic by Andrew Kendrick.
http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/CRCC/kendrick.htm
ERIC Review of Research on Bullying in Schools.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed407154.html
Reviews of Books and Videos about Bullying
Bullying in Schools and What to Do about It by Dr. Ken Rigby.
http://www.indigenet.unisa.edu.au/bullying/bullying.html
Safety Quest. This is an interactive CD-ROM designed to empower children between the ages of 4 and 12 against bullies, strangers, and other child predators.
http://www.aurorainteractive.com/
Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain a book by Trevor Romain.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1575420236/qid%3D951672915/002-9856129-9851424
The Bully Free Classroom: Over 100 Tips and Strategies for Teachers K-8 by All L. Beane.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1575420546/ref%3Dsim%5Fbooks/002-9856129-9851424
The Safe Child Book by Sherryll Kraizer. This book is said to be a Common Sense Approach to Protecting Children and Teaching Children To Protect Themselves.
http://www.safechild.org/book.htm
Taking the Bully by the Horns by Kathy Noll. This is an excellent summary of important ideas from the author's book by this same title.
http://hometown.aol.com/kthynoll/bully.htm
Classroom Resources
"B" is for Bully . A musical play that is an innovative approach to increasing awareness of bullying.
http://www.total.net/~rbrass/bully.html
Bullying Prevention. A short list of resources from the Youth & Family Violence Prevention Library at the Iowa State University.
http://www.exnet.iastate.edu/Pages/yfvp/bullying.html
Pathfinder: Bullying. This is a list of resources from the Winnipeg (Canada) Public Library. You don't have to drive all the way to Manitoba &emdash; try your own public library.
http://www.wsd1.winnipeg.mb.ca/PC_LMS/pfbully.htm
Related Topics:
If you are looking for information about bullying, you might also be interested in the following topics:
Assertiveness Conflict Resolution
School Violence
Workplace Bullying
Child Abuse
Dysfunctional Relationships
Other (Non-Web) Sources of Information
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