Danbury News Times - September 1, 2010
"Between 40 and 80 percent of school-age children experience bullying in their school career, and up to 15 percent are chronic victims or bullies...It's estimated that one in four boys who bully will have a criminal record by age 30". Read more.
As a parent it is quite difficult and challenging to teach your child to be the "better person" when your first instinct is to protect your child from harm physical, verbal and otherwise. As a mom I've encouraged my child to be the better person, stay away, ignore, tell them to stop and pretty much all the advice out there on how to handle bullies without retaliating but to no avail. If you would like to work towards making your children's school safer, you can visit this link, you might find it interesting: http://www.SafeKidZone.com/
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