Signe Whitson

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290 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2023 last heard Dec 2023

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 353: Ginger Whitson on Bullying — What it Looks Like, How to Handle It, and How to Protect Our Kids from Being Targets · 12 Dec 2023 podcast

You know, standing an appropriate distance away from someone.

I just think there's concrete things that we can do to teach kids how to to show some confidence that way.

And then I think we do kids a great service when we give them some

pre-planned phrases that they can use to stand up for themselves.

And one of the things I do with kids a lot is I say, you know, I'm a grown-up, my phrases, you might think they're kind of corny or cheesy, but let's brainstorm together some things.

And kids come up with good phrases like, hey, knock it off.

That's not cool.

Hey, I didn't think that was funny.

I also try to help kids brainstorm cool things that they could say to stand up for other people, because that's really effective.

But for many of us, me certainly, when I was a kid, if someone would tease me, 10 minutes later I'd have the world's best comeback.

But in the moment, I could never think of something to say.

So I think it's really helpful as adults when we can just give kids phrases that are in their pockets that they don't have to s to stretch their brains to think about.

But automatic assertive phrases.

And by assertive, I don't mean, you know, tell the other person that you hate them and that they're a jerk and you know, whatever other terms you would use.

Standing up for yourself without putting somebody else down.

And then if I I had to say the other best way to bullyproof kids is help your child cast a wide net.

Sometimes it's hard to fit in at school.

And that can be really painful, but kids that don't fit in at school might really fit in with their youth group or in a theater group or martial arts or you know whatever else other interest they have.

And kids can do okay, even if school is hard.

Kids can do okay if they have strong supportive friendships in different parts of their life.

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