Product Description: Banishing Bullying Behavior challenges students, parents, educators, education support professionals, administrators, counselors, and policy makers to confront the culture of cruelty that is devastating our society. This book is filled with insights, personal stories, anecdotal material, and strategies that are directed to the widest audience possible...read more

Fried and Sosland bring their combined experiences together to present a blueprint to reduce the pain, rage and revenge cycle of bullying. Their strategies have been captured from hands-on interaction with educators, parents and students. Their premise comes from the apocryphal village that is being ravaged by dysentery. Do you treat each person for their intestinal disorders or do you put in a sewer system? Do you work with each individual student or do you change a culture that hosts cruelty. Can you do both? The core of the book is the Student Empowerment Session that has been crafted and refined over fifteen years. This carefully organized, powerful system of questions has effected dramatic changes in children's insights about their behavior. The book also explores topics which include cyberbullying, children with disabilities, 'mean girls,' teachers who are bullies, parents who refuse to accept that their children are bullies, and academic vs. social emotional learning concerns to help readers change the culture and banish bully behavior.

Provides personal stories from children who have been the victims of bullies in school and offers current research and information how to prevent this growing form of child abuse.

Explores teasing and the power relationships among children, and examines the impact of adults, schools, the media, and society on bullies and victims in the schoolyard

Explores the context of teasing and the power relationships among children, as well as the impact of adults, schools, the media, and society on bullies and victims in the schoolyard, with expert advice for parents and teachers on how to minimize the pain of this childhood experience. IP.