
How Parents Can Help
- Attend a new Kidscape course - Teaching parents and carers skills to protect children from bullying - please email Brenda for details or call 020 7730 3300
- If you are worried that your child is being bullied, ask him/her directly
- Be aware of the signs and symptoms of bullying
- Take bullying seriously and find out the facts when told about an
incident of bullying
- Don't agree to keep the bullying a secret
- Talk with teacher or headteacher, if it is school bullying
- Give teachers the suggestions in this booklet and point out the resources
listed at the back of this booklet
- Institute Kidscape programmes in schools to combat bullying
- Help children practise strategies such as shouting
no, walking with confidence and running away
- Give your child a chance to vent his/her feelings about being bullied
- Get other parents together and discuss ways to stop the bullying
- Talk to the parent governors at your school and suggest a school policy
on bullying. If you meet with any difficulties, we'd like to know
- email experience@kidscape.org.uk
- Arrange to meet your child, if the bullying is happening on the way
to or from school
- Ask that the bullies be kept at school until everyone has had a chance
to get home
- If you feel it would help your children's confidence, ask them if
they would like to take self-defence classes
- Check that your child is not inviting the bullying by some obnoxious
habit, such as spitting, picking his nose, etc
- Keep a written diary of all incidents
- Invite children over to help your child make friends
You can get more details about how you can help by visiting our downloads page
and looking at the leaflets and booklets that are in our Bully
Pack and Child Safety Pack.