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• What is bullying?
• Signs of bullying
• How you can help your child
• Online Safety\Cyber Bullying
• Bully Log
• Changing Schools
• Teenagers
• My Child is a Bully
• Assertiveness for children
• ZAP Assertiveness Training
• Training for Parents and Professionals
• Anti-Bullying Policy
• Protecting Children from Paedophiles

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Possible signs of Bullying

A child may indicate by their behavior that he or she is being bullied. If your child shows some of the following signs, bullying may be responsible and you might want to ask if someone is bullying or threatening them.

Children may :

• be frightened of walking to and from school
• change their usual route
• not want you to go on the school bus
• beg you to drive them to school
• be unwilling to go to school (or be 'school phobic')
• feel ill in the mornings
• begin truanting
• begin doing poorly in their school work
• come home regularly with clothes or books destroyed
• come home starving (bully taking dinner money)
• become withdrawn, start stammering, lack confidence
• become distressed and anxious, stop eating
• attempt or threaten suicide
• cry themselves to sleep, have nightmares
• have their possessions go missing
• ask for money or start stealing (to pay the bully)
• continually 'lose' their pocket money
• refuse to talk about what's wrong
• have unexplained bruises, cuts, scratches
• begin to bully other children, siblings
• become aggressive and unreasonable
• give improbable excuses for any of the above