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

I think one of the factors for the the long term outcomes is how helpless did that person feel in the moment.

Were they on the receiving end of cruelty, but they felt like they knew how to stand up for themselves, th their voice was able to make a difference.

There were adults there that were on their side, there were parents that were supporting them.

There was another

group of friends that never left their side to remind them that they had value and worth.

versus a person who receives similar treatment doesn't know how to stand up for themselves, doesn't have any teachers offering them protection, doesn't have parents that are supportive, doesn't have a group of friends that will stand by them.

So I think those positive human connections can make all the difference in building someone's resilience to bullying.

Yeah, uh absolutely.

The first thing I think is don't freak out.

Just like when you have a toddler who's learning to walk and they wobble and they fall.

If the parent says, Oh, oh my gosh, are you okay?

The first thing the toddler does is cry, right?

But if the parent sort of goes and says, Oh, you're okay and helps the child up and sort of expresses some confidence in the child's ability to recover from the fall, kids go on their merry way most of the time, right?

So I think that's the same thing when a young person

tells you that they are being bullied.

If you have a parent's heart, you're gonna panic, your heart's gonna drop, the blood's gonna drain from your face, you're gonna worry, you're gonna just feel so terrible.

But no matter what is going on inside your body, you have to convey to the child that their situation is manageable.

If kids feel like their adult can't handle what's happening, they lose all of their confidence that, okay, I can get through this situation.

I think that's one of the number one things.

We want to respond, take it seriously, validate the experience, but all in a way that helps convey that we're gonna get through this together.

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