Kids can be so sweet...kids can also be very mean. As a parent, it’s your natural instinct to protect your child – to keep him or her from getting physically and emotionally hurt. It’s a difficult enough challenge at home, but as soon as your child walks out that door, his fate is often in his own hands. You can’t be there when your child is taunted on the playground, talked about behind her back, or tricked and pushed around by older kids, but you can prepare your child to defend himself or herself emotionally against bullies.

This seminar will show you how.

If it is your child who is the bully, you should also be worried. Your child is not “stressing his independence” or “developing her leadership qualities.” S/he is participating in destructive behavior that has very real negative consequences and requires help. If you know or suspect that your child is being bullied, or is bullying others, you will want to enroll in this important live, Better Family University online seminar. Put an end to bullying and discover the strategies and tactics to protect and defend your child’s emotional health.

About This Seminar. . .

Everybody knows or has known a bully. Sometimes they are easy to spot: the scrappy kid always ready for a fight. Sometimes, they hide themselves: the pretty girl who verbally puts others down. It may seem harmless or like typical child behavior, but be very certain: bullying causes real pain and the psychological scars it leaves can last a lifetime.

Bullying involves intentionally tormenting another person through verbal harassment or physical assault. It can also include more subtle, indirect means of attack, including coercion or manipulation. It’s even possible that your child’s “very best friend” may be a sometime bully, pressuring your child to behave and act in ways that are not in your child’s self interest. When your child is being bullied, s/he may feel a broad range of natural emotions, including shame, embarrassment, damaged self-esteem, or intense anger—which is often kept inside. This can lead to depression, poor concentration, and school avoidance.

The problem can intensify beyond the psychological violence, harassment, and emotional abuse of single bully. Other kids will frequently rally behind the alluring power of a bully to create a “mobbing” situation, in which the victim is hopelessly outnumbered.

If your child is being bullied, on some level you also feel the pain, confusion, anger, frustration, helplessness—even desperation. Bullying is a problem that doesn’t fix itself. Thankfully, there are specific strategies and tactics you can arm your child with to prepare him or her to deal effectively with the bully.

Our World Is Full of Bullies:

Boy Bullies. Girl Bullies.

While boys are more likely to engage in acts of physical intimidation when bullying, girls are apt to engage in social aggression, which uses isolation, exclusion, the “silent treatment,” and rumors to devastate victims. These hurtful behaviors can be even more destructive to your child. Physical pain typically ends shortly after infliction; the emotional pain inflicted by social aggression can have longer-lasting consequences.

Other ways bullies intimidate their targets:

• Verbal: Calling names. Making threats. Relentless teasing. Saying and writing mean things about your child.
• Physical: Hitting. Kicking. Pinching. Tripping.
• Social: Making your child do things s/he doesn’t want to do. Peer pressure. Frightening your child.
• Illegal: Taking or damaging personal property. Assault.

Bullying is all about abusing power. This Better Parenting University Seminar will explain how to give the power back to your child.

If your child is bullying others, this is a clear sign that s/he is also struggling. Research shows that six out of ten children who bully will have a criminal conviction by their mid-twenties, and forty percent of those will have multiple convictions. In this seminar, you will learn to recognize that a bully behaves in very predictable ways. When you understand this behavior, you will then be able to turn the negative energy of a bullying situation into more positive behaviors.
Bullying doesn’t just “work itself out.”
Find out what to do about it

You Will Discover...

• The extent of the bullying problem, including shocking real stories
• How to tell when good natured ribbing has crossed the line into bullying
• Why bullying must stop, before the damage sets in
• The school’s role and responsibility in preventing and ending bullying
• When (and how) to communicate with the bully’s parents
• The psychology of the bully (the payoff; how targets are chosen)
• The most helpful advice to give your child
• New, surprising forms of bullying (including cyberbullying)
• What to do when your child is “the bully”

This Better Parenting University seminar will present practical, realistic, and workable strategies to bring a swift halt to bullying and help a bullied child to heal.

You Will Be Able To...

• Respond effectively to end bullying immediately
• Identify potential bullying situations and help your child avoid them
• Recognize likely bullies and help your child steer clear
• Inform others about effective ways to prevent bullying
• Show your child how to help another bullied child
• Help your child recover from having been bullied
• "Bully-proof" your child in the future

Bullying is a serious problem that requires a serious response. You can take effective action by enrolling in this live, interactive seminar which will arm you with the tools and confidence you need to confront the problem of bullying head-on.

Protect your child, emotionally and physically. Sign up now for The Bully and the Bullied live seminar.

Who Should Attend...

You - if you are a parent of a child age 5 - 15