Talking with your children if they are bullying others
Encouraging your children not to bully others
You can:
- Talk with your children about what is acceptable behaviour and what is not, online and offline eg "we should not send nasty messages to people to make them feel bad".
- Work together with your family to establish simple rules and expectations about how your family treats each other.
- Work with your family to establish clear guidelines about Internet use at home.
- Encourage and provide opportunities for your children to openly discuss bullying issues, including cyber-bullying with the family.
- Discuss friendship and help your children to make friends by encouraging them to play with other children at school, at home or in the neighbourhood.
- Discuss with your children how to be a friend online.
- Invite other children to your home for visits and teach your children how to make their guests feel welcome.
- Encourage your children to share and be aware of the feelings of others.
Warwick Norman
FS&F Coordinator
