{"id":212,"date":"2018-02-05T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=212"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T10:03:02","slug":"the-secret-to-tackling-your-childs-bullying-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"The secret to tackling your child\u2019s bullying behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do not collude.<\/strong>\u00a0There\u2019s never an excuse for bullying and your child needs to know that your sympathies lie with the victim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bullying thrives on silence.<\/strong>\u00a0It takes an honest parent to admit that their child has done something so nasty. If told your child is bullying, try not to go for instant denial, but investigate instead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bullying can be learned,<\/strong>\u00a0so do a little detective work. Have they seen other children act like this or witnessed domestic bullying? Physical violence apart, there are other types of bullying, such as shouting over people or using sulky silences. If this is part of your home life, consider family counselling if you can\u2019t change it alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ask your child how they\u2019d feel<\/strong>\u00a0if someone bullied them and they were scared to go to school. An awareness of the fear they\u2019ve caused should hopefully make them want to put it right.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-1 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-feature--item rich-link--pillar-lifestyle\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__image-container u-responsive-ratio\"><strong>A face-to-face apology can help,<\/strong>\u00a0as can encouraging the children involved to chat without parents directing the conversation. This gives the child who was bullied some \u00a0control over the situation, and\u00a0potentially relief that reporting it helped rather than made it worse. Other parents will also feel that you\u2019re taking this seriously.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>If you\u2019re punishing your child,<\/strong>\u00a0withdraw a treat for a specific time but also suggest they make up for what they\u2019ve done. The reputation of being a bully can linger. Help your child learn the benefits of being kind and fair instead and, since they\u2019ve said sorry, you can now support them all the way.<\/p>\n<p>Source\u00a0https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2018\/feb\/03\/the-secret-to-tackling-your-childs-bullying-behaviour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not collude.\u00a0There\u2019s never an excuse for bullying and your child needs to know that your sympathies lie with the victim. Bullying thrives on silence.\u00a0It takes an honest parent to admit that their child has done something so nasty. If told your child is bullying, try not to go for instant denial, but investigate instead. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}