Has your child been bullied? What do you do about it?

My daughter is only nearly six months old but the thought that she would somebday be bullied when she's old enough to go to school bothers and worries me. I think if that happens to my daughter I would talk to the bullies and if it does not work I would talk even to their parents and tell them to teach their children good values.

My sons have been bullied a couple of times by kids on the bus and at school. The worst time my oldest boy was pushed down by a second grader on the playground and sustained a huge roadrash on his forehead and a concussion. I was pissed! The teacher asked him if the kid pushed him and he said no, but he later told me that he did, and I believed him because he told me that he was scared that the teacher would be mad at him. Well when I called and tried to tell the teacher what had really happened she basically called me a liar and hung up on me. So I called and talked to the principal of the school and had both the playground teacher that was supposed to be watching the kids and my sons teacher wrote up for misconduct and I had the 2nd grader suspended for bullying for 2 days. I was mad because they had just done this school wide course on bullying two days before all this and then all this happens. And then the teacher doesn't believe me, but the principal did. I was very pleased with how she handled it and since then the boys have been treated with respect and they both say that they have more friends now. The teacher doesn't like me much, but I care about my kids peace of mind more than her, she should have listened to me when I tried to tell her what was going on. But that is me. :)

the parents of these bullies must be made aware of the kind of kids that they have. i will surely watch over my child personally one time if only it is needed to straighten things up. then i will have my child to go through some martial arts training. so much for that. you seem to be so concerned about your daughter having only so very few friends. it is really common. i used to be, too. what you are doing now is right. you can also tell your daoughter to invite some friends on weekends.

Earlier this year my daughter came home from school complaining about another girl in her class always hitting her. I asked if she haf told the teacher. She said she had so I let it drop. Two days later my daughter woke up an said that she didn't feel good so I let her stay home. I ran the other kids to school and came back home to take care of her. A couple of hours later I noticed that she didn't appear to be sick anymore. She had faked being sick because that girl hit her again. So they next day my daughter and I had a talk with her teacher. The teacher promised me she would take care of the problem. Everything was fine for about a week. Then my daughter tried to fake sick again. So I knew something had to be wrong. Of course the same girl was back to hitting my daughter again. This time I went to the principal. He told me that he would have the problem solved by the end of the day. My daughter came home that day to tell me that because I went to the principal about her problem that her teacher yelled at her. Of course I felt that I needed to make another trip to the school. I couldn't go the next day but promised the day after I would. The next dat she came home an told me that the girl was still hitting her. I was mad at this point. The next day I went up to the school to speak to the principal as well as the teacher. I told them how I felt about what was happening to my daughter. I demanded a meeting with the other gilrs parents as well since the school wasn't able to fix the situation. On Friday the other parents, the principal, the teacher, and myself met at the school. I expalined to the other parents that their daughter was beating on my daughter who is almost half their daughters size. The school never notified the other parents about the problem. After this meeting the other girl hasn't hit my daughter. I try not to ignore anything that involves my children. I want to have an open relationship so that they can come to me about anything.

George Bush is a bully. He bullies other countries. How can we tell our children that it is wrong, when all they have to say is they are being like the President?