SAFETY STRATEGIES-The Deal with Bullies

Bully Defense and Making the Right Choices ​

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HOW SHOULD PARENTS EDUCATE CHILDREN ABOUT BULLYING?

Talk to your children directly about the kinds of bullying behaviors – verbal harassment, threats for money or other valuables, ethnic or racial slurs, following or stalking at school or anywhere, being bullied on-line, being singled or shut out of group behaviors and pushing or hitting. It is important for parents to recognize their child may not understand what bullying really means and when they should ask for help. As with any personal safety training for children, each child should know how to contact their parents or guardian at all times, how to identify and get to a safe place or zone in any situation and, how to call and provide information to 911.

911 Call Info – full name, address or cross streets where you are, why you need help, leave phone connected.

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Talk to children about the kinds of dangers that exist, don’t be shy and beat around the bush. Teach children, above all, to trust their internal alarm.
If this internal alarm rings get to a safe zone and find a trusted adult immediately. Teach your children awareness and distance are their two most important self defense skills. Practice the skill of identifying “Safe Zones” in any environment, make a game with rewards. Teach children never to be afraid to talk to you about anything.

Teach children the practice of “Self Escape,” where would I go at any time to find safety?

REMEMBER, CHILDREN ACT MUCH QUICKER THAN THEY REACT

Spotlight bully scenarios and potential solutions in advance to protect your children.

~ Have a Family Protection Plan. Once a week, for a few weeks, bring the family together to discuss what is going on in the world and spotlight a specific danger scenario, talk about it and suggest potential outcomes and a simple protection response. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and reinforce your love for the family is why we plan in advance. Use this time to discuss bullies.
~ Teach your children to walk with purpose and communicate confidence. Develop a habit for yourself and your family to raise “situation awareness” when passing through doorways and exits. Teach your children to scan left to right as they enter an area; this is how we process information fastest and with the most retention.
~ Teach your children a “Safety Stance” and how to present a “Personal Fence” (hands up in a STOP position). Parents, teachers or other helpful adults can readily see there is a problem. Help your child develop an assertive stay away command to be used with any aggressor.

12 Ways To Deal With A Bully With Confidence

Be A Friend

Use Humor

Walk Away

Use Creative Imagination

Meet and Greet

Don’t Be There

Personal Fence

Assertive Stay Away

Ignore and Walk

Use Others Around

Tell An Adult

Assertive Stay Away

~ Discuss with your children that it is not always easy to talk to adults about serious or scary things such as bullies. If you have a couple of childhood bully stories to share with your child they may relate much better with you about bullies. Rule 1 in Bully Defense is ALWAYS TELL AN ADULT.
~ If it feels safe, stand up to the person who is bullying you. If a bully thinks you will take an assertive response to their bullying they will usually stop or move on to someone else. This does not mean to bully back or fight back unless you must. Keep your response simple. “Johnny, leave me alone.” If possible talk in a calm voice. If you are not comfortable confronting a bully walk away, just be sure to tell an adult.
~ If you are bullied on-line, don’t reply. If possible, block any more communications from this person. Tell an adult and show them the bully’s communication.
~ Learn the “Safety Stance,” learn how to present a hands up “Stay Away Command,” such as “Leave Me Alone” or “Stay Away.” Or, in a dangerous situation how to “Go Crazy” – “help me this person is trying to hurt me.”
~ Remember, we act much faster than we react. Work with children to develop simple, black and white responses to dangerous scenarios, whether a fire or explosion near them, a bully at school or any scenario where your child feels uncomfortable around any teen or adult. Our children will likely not face these scenarios when we are with them. They will react as they have been trained to react.

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