Who Says Bullies Rule?: Common Sense Tips to Help Your Kids to Cope

Who Says Bullies Rule?: Common Sense Tips to Help Your Kids to Cope

by Catherine DePino
Who Says Bullies Rule?: Common Sense Tips to Help Your Kids to Cope

Who Says Bullies Rule?: Common Sense Tips to Help Your Kids to Cope

by Catherine DePino

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Overview

Who Says Bullies Rule?: Common Sense Tips to Help Your Kids Cope gives parents practical bully prevention tips for their elementary and middle school children. It helps parents empower their children to stop bullying before it veers out of control and teaches parents to navigate their school systems' channels to stop bullies from bothering their children. Additionally, the book arms parents with workable suggestions they can offer their children for dealing with different types of bullies, such as teasers, excluders, intimidators, and cyber bullies. The most important feature of Who Says Bullies Rule?, and what sets it apart from other books, is that it underscores the importance of having children use their common sense to anticipate and deal with bullies' actions. No child should ever have to tolerate physical or mental abuse at the hands of a bully. Parents are the first line of defense against bullying. Using a conversational tone with myriad examples, Who Says Bullies Rule? shows parents what they need to do to help keep their children safe.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781610484695
Publisher: R&L Education
Publication date: 07/21/2011
Pages: 126
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Dr. Catherine DePino is the author of four books about bullying. Blue Cheese Breath and Stinky Feet: How to Deal with Bullies, a chapter book published by APA, has been translated into different languages and is widely used in bully prevention programs. Her parenting book, Who Says Bullies Rule?: Common Sense Tips to Help Your Kids Cope, gives parents practical tools to help children overcome bullying. She also wrote Real Life Bully Prevention for Real Kids, a teacher resource book. Additionally, Catherine wrote many grammar/writing books for teachers to use in their classrooms. Catherine holds a doctorate from Temple University and has served as an English teacher and department head in the Philadelphia School District and as a student teaching supervisor for Temple University. View her website and contact her at www.catherinedepino.com.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Keep Your Child a Step Ahead of Bullying
Chapter 2: Encourage Your Child to Use Common Sense to Outsmart a Bully
Chapter 3: Bully-Proof Your Child Against Appearance-Based Put-Downs
Chapter 4: Help Your Child Deal with Bullies Who Ignore, Exclude, Insult, or Intimidate
Chapter 5: Help Your Child Deal with Sibling Bullying and Cyber Bullying
Chapter 6: How to Talk So a Bully Will Listen
Chapter 7: Know How to Navigate the System
Chapter 8: Take Action When Your Child is in Distress
Chapter 9: Be Your Child's Lifeline
Chapter 10: Help Your Child Come Out a Winner

What People are Saying About This

John P. Halligan

In today's world of parenting, one needs to be brought up to speed with the latest ways kids bully kids. This book gives parents a contemporary guide for communicating with their children and reducing the probability of their children becoming targets. The tweens and teen years are far more challenging to navigate as a child than a generation ago. This book will be a valuable navigation guide for both the child and the parent.

Alexandra Barzvi

Finally, a practical book has arrived that teaches you exactly what to do if your child is being bullied, including how to ensure open communication, how to handle all types of bullying situations effectively, and how to even avoid bullies in the first place. This book goes way beyond what we already know about the negative effects of bullying. This is a must read for all parents of school-age kids. Don't wait—your children need this information!

Robert Palestini

Bullying is a monumental problem in our schools today. It is estimated that more than one in five our young people is experiencing some type of bullying. Whether you are a parent, guardian, or grandparent, Catherine De Pino's very topical book on bullying, Who Says Bullies Rule?: Common Sense Tips to Help Your Kids to Cope, will be an excellent tool in helping us to deal with this issue and in preventing bullying before it begins.

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