Bullied : what every parent, teacher, and kid needs to know about ending the cycle of fear /
The author of this book became an unexpected voice for the antibullying movement after her blog post about her daughter Katie's bullying experience went viral and an online community of support generated international attention. Her first-grade daughter, Katie, was roundly bullied for having wh...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
HarperOne,
[2012]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Cover image |
Table of Contents:
- Katie's Story. Anti-bullying starts in the first grade ; The littlest Jedi ; Our local community response.
- Kids at High Risk for Peer Victimization. From geek girls to sluts: what does it mean to be a girl? ; Princess boys and nonconforming guys ; Quirky kids and kids with hidden disabilities ; Kids with difference appearances or physical disabilities ; Gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual students ; Victims of cyberbullying, sexting, and sexual harassment ; The harmful effects of bullying on the brain.
- Where Do We go From Here? : Prevention, Intervention, and Reconciliation. Create a home environment that produces neither bullies nor victims ; Set out family guidelines for responsible uses of technology, media, and music ; Changing our cultural attitudes toward aggression and cruelty ; Calling on toy retailers to eliminate gender-based marketing ; Stop marketing makeup and sexy clothes to children ; Reassess the role of schools in character education ; Social and emotional learning ; Responding to the bully ; Responding to the victim ; Restorative justice ; Strategies that ease the negative effects of taunting ; Creating witnesses and allies out of bystanders ; Cybersupporting instead of cyberbullying: a real-life happy ending
- Overview of several promising research-based bullying-prevention and character-education programs
- Two examples of bullying surveys
- Examples of sexual harassment surveys.