How To Prevent Your Kid From Causing Other Kids Unhappiness

As a parent, how can you encourage open, assertive communication with your child to prevent acts of bullying? Veuer’s Chloe Hurst has the story!

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00:00It's not ideal as a parent to hear that your child is the source of another child's unhappiness.

00:06Dr. Amy Lee, a pediatric psychologist, says it's important to teach kids that if there's a problem

00:11with getting along with other people that it's considered bullying. Cleveland Clinic reports,

00:16the word bullying is used to describe the negative treatment or behavior from one person

00:21towards another. Dr. Lee reiterates it as repeated aggressive behavior directed at a person or a

00:28group in order to exert power over that person or group. As a parent, how can you encourage open,

00:35assertive communication with your child to prevent acts of bullying? Well, it's important to lay the

00:40foundation as early as preschool, reinforce respect and kindness, and teach emotional language that

00:46can help them identify how they are feeling. Try timeouts as a way to calm down and practice

00:52positive attention. Kids can be bullies and be bullied. Your child's behavior could be a defense

00:58mechanism to manage a situation or protect themselves.