How will you teach your kids to deal with bullies?

My son is in the kindergarten. I don't ask my son to hit the bully back. It's wrong in my opinion. I tell my child not to get closer to the bully. And when the bully does something wrong, then he says it to the teacher. But as to elder students, the school violence is a real big problem. Perhaps in the future I will ask my son to act like a simple person and don't let others get attention. Do not annoy the bullies but try to protect himself. If it's necessary, perhaps I need to talk to the bullies' parents. I love China

I let my daughter know that she can always come to me if she is being bullied. When she was in Kindergarten she was being bullied by a kid in her class, when it got bad I took her to the principle and made him have a talk with the kid. If it hasn't peaked to high, I try to get her to realize that sometimes they just need a friend or someone to be nice to. I think the most important thing is to teach your child not to be a bully. If every parent did that we wouldn't ever have to deal with bullies. I see parents teaching their children that it is ok to bully other people and that makes me sick.

Yes i guess that is really hard to tell right now. I have a son who is six years old and sometimes out of nothing he would tell me that he is being pushed around but he could not expressed it well to us that is why we are suspecting that he is being bullied around. But so far we have consulted this to his guidance counselor to observe him but his guidance counselor doesn't find sufficient evidence that he is. I wish that he could cope up with school and so far his grades is doing just fine. I would not encourage him to fight back as this would just attract more enemies than friends.

I don't have kids, but my dad always made sure we had plenty of activities going on outside of school. That way, it didn't matter if people were giving us a hard time in school, we had something else to focus on. I hope that helps!

Oh, god, he was involved in everything! He was self-employed, which allowed him to do more than the normal dad... For me, I was in four dance classes, an acting class, ice skating, horseback riding, and gymnastics (and in the summertime sport programs made up the rest). My brother was a cub scout, played football and basketball, and took acting class. My sister was really involved in our community theatre program, so she volunteered there a lot (as did I when I got older). What was important was we could pursue any interest, we were limited to how many we could do at a time, but everything we did was aimed at building a skill set, so it was really great for self-esteem. One thing I wish I had gotten into was karate, kids with karate training have really great self-esteem!