Tips to Bully Proof Your Kids

Bully Proof Tip 1

Ask your school for their behavior management policy/bullying policy and make yourself aware of their method of dealing with bullying.

Bully Proof Tip 2

Keep your kids enrolled in ATI martial arts so that over a period of years they WILL be more confident and assertive and be less of an easy target for bullies. We will teach them tips and tricks to defeat the bully without fighting.

Bully Proof Tip 3

Encourage your kids to talk to you and share their feelings and things that happen to them.

Bully Proof Tip 4

Resist getting emotional and confronting the bully or parent of the offending child – there are 2 sides to every story – and you should allow the school to take some action if this occurs in school.

Bully Proof Tip 5

Teach your kids to stand up for themselves and to also stand up for others who may be bullied.

Bully Proof Tip 6

Teach your kids to avoid the bully and hang out with other friends or groups of friends who are more confident.

Bully Proof Tip 7

Teach your child to keep a distance at all times from the know bully so they are not such an easy target and to ask for help from a teacher if experiencing problems.

- Good to Know -

Victims of bullying are usually the quieter, less confident type kids or kids who are different and seem to be an easy target, bullies are usually out for attention and are weak themselves in reality and will seek out the weaker easier target.

People who stand up for themselves generally do not get bullied after the 1st attempt

There is no easy solution yet it can be as simple as a child yelling at the top of their voice to “leave me alone don’t touch me again!!!” to startle and unsettle the bully leaving them unsure what will happen if they persist with this person.

A bully does not want to be made look silly or hit back. This is why they will attack the weaker more timid individual.