Bullying at School Advice for Families Form

Instructions and help about Bullying At School Advice For Families

We know that verbal teasing is very, very common amongst adolescents and it doesn´t even really matter how popular you are. Everybody gets teased as a teenager. It´s how you react to it that determines how often you get teased or how severely. And the problem is that as adults we often give kids the wrong advice in how to handle teasing. In fact, I ask teens this question all the time. What do adults tell you to do in response to teasing? And they are always told to do these three different things: they are told to either walk away, ignore or tell an adult. And then I ask them if it works and they say, "No." It doesn´t because the reality is is that is not what kids who are socially accepted actually naturally do. What kids who are socially accepted do in these situations is they act like what the person said didn´t bother them and in fact it was kind of lame. So they will give a short little comeback that shows that. They will say something like, "Whatever," or "Yeah, and or your