Signe Whitson

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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

Children should be able to develop the skills to manage independently.

Bullying is a a whole different level of behavior that I would say we don't want children to have to manage independently.

The work I've done is tried to really break down or or to separate behaviors that are rude.

From behaviors that are mean, from behaviors that are bullying.

I try to teach kids, I try to teach parents, I try to teach professionals that rude behaviors are things that happen spontaneously, impulsively, certainly not with a lot of pre-planned intent to hurt someone.

I work in a K-to-8 school.

One of the things I hear almost every day is something along the lines of, she she bullied me, and I'll ask.

a question about what happened and a child will say, Well they jumped in front of me in line.

That's bullying.

And I like to remind them that that's against the rules.

I understand why they don't like it, but maybe the teacher asked them to be there in line.

Maybe they really need to go to the bathroom.

You know, there's a million reasons why they could have done that thing, or maybe they were just being rude, right?

But it that's different than bullying.

Mean behavior, I feel like, takes it another step further where it is on purpose, but mean behavior is actually something that usually happens between kids who are friends or friendly, but they're mad at each other, or there's a particular conflict that they're involved in, and so they are intentionally cruel, but it's happening once or twice.

This is not a a whole pattern of behavior.

Where bullying differs from rudeness and meanness is that it is on purpose.

There is absolutely a pattern to it.

And there's some type of imbalance of power.

So when I was little I assumed that a bully was going to be older, bigger, faster, stronger, smarter than me.

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