What can I do to prevent kids from being bullied?

Bullying, it’s rampant, and cruel. Here are key lessons to prevent kids from being bullied:Recognize that bullying is repeated. You CAN and must identify victims.

Bullying is a pattern: it is almost always repeated and rarely a one-time occurrence. So keep an eye out for victims. You must step in.

Bullying usually escalates and there is a time when a child cannot fend for himself. Watch for vulnerable kids. We know some children are more likely to be targeted by bullies.

Those who are susceptible to a bully’s prey: kids who don’t fit in, who lack social competence or are different. We can spot these kids. They stand out!

Watch them. They are easy to spot. Set up safety nets for kids.

Every child needs an ally — but especially a child who is bullied. Identify caring adults on a school campus, neighborhood, or club that a child can go to and report his concerns or just feel safe. Those adults should be identified to all students (”In case you don’t feel safe, here are folks to go to and the times and places to find them.”) Be specific!

Don’t assume kids know who to go to. Create anonymous student reporting options of threats. Kids talk.

Kids hear. And kids need to be able to report an incident prior to such an event. Two thirds of all school shooters told their intentions prior to the shooting.

Three-fourths of students before they commit homicide or suicide tell another peer or an adult. Each school must have anonymous reporting options such as an anonymous phone hotline, a website or a Report Box (a locked box on the school campus in which students can describe on a slip of paper a safety concern they heard). Those reports are then read daily by law enforcement officers or school administrators and acted upon.

All you need is one compassionate, concerned student to fill out a slip of paper retelling what they heard. And all you need is one caring adult to read that report and act on it. Those reporting options can save lives.

It is key to violence prevention. Take bullying seriously, please! We know that 160,000 students a day skip school due to bullying.

We also know that bullying causes severe emotional damage to a victim (as well as to witnesses). We now have the term, “bullycide” just for victims who have committed suicide.

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