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

And that would be a really natural pathway into bullying prevention because you know, in a school environment when kids are close to each other all day experiencing the natural conflict that comes with just being in a community.

But then, you know, the unique social conditions that school brings and adolescence brings.

But I actually was interested in bullying even before that.

I was doing some work in the field of helping kids manage their anger.

And also learning about how kids express anger other than in aggressive ways, including passive aggressive ways.

And that was really my entree into

Helping kids manage bullying, looking at all of the passive aggressive, sort of relational ways that young people use their friendship as a weapon, instead of the overt, you know, hitting, verbal teasing, sort of cyberbullying things that were easy to recognize, how young people threatened to take their friendship away, I won't be your friend anymore if.

Or use the silent treatment or

Spread rumors about other people, sort of that underhanded, a little bit more covert, a little bit tougher for adults to recognize, but really confusing, really painful for kids who are on this receiving end of it.

So yeah, I found my way to this work by just sort of really seeing that need and having a lot of heart for kids who were being bullied.

but not in the traditionally recognized ways that people thought bullying happened.

And I just wanted to shine a light on it for those young people.

That is a great series of questions.

Let me see if how many of them I can answer 'cause there's a lot rolled into that.

I do think that

Bullying is still a pervasive problem.

I think it has been for a long time.

I think people like Rosalind Wiseman and Rachel Simmons were great, like pioneers, you know, talk about shining the light.

They shined a light on bullying when it was something that no one else was talking about, or people would just say

It's a rite of passage, it's part of being a kid.

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