Programs for Education - Bully Proof Your Child

Programs for Education                                       Sticks and Stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me……

Each day, 10-year-old Seth asked his mom for more and more lunch money. Yet he seemed skinnier than ever and came home from school hungry. It turned out that Seth was handing his lunch money to a fifth-grader, who was threatening to beat him up if he didn't pay.

Kayla, 13, thought things were going well at her new school, since all the popular girls were being so nice to her. But then she found out that one of them had posted mean rumors about her on a website. Kayla cried herself to sleep that night and started going to the nurse's office complaining of a stomachache to avoid the girls in study hall. 

Unfortunately, the kind of bullying that Seth and Kayla experienced is widespread. In national surveys, most kids and teens say that bullying happens at school.  Alarmingly, and for teens in particular, cyber-bullying, harassment, stalking, spying, sexting and sexual predation has reached dangerous levels through out the country, resulting in new anti bullying legislation.

Bully Proofing Made Easy!

Connie Palmer, LCSW, an experienced teacher, therapist, and school counselor presents a new approach to bullying:  Bully Proofing Your Child.  Most anti-bullying curriculum puts the focus on getting the bully to change and doesn’t empower the victims of bullying  to learn ways to solve the problem.  

The approach presented at this CHILD sponsored program, which was featured on CHILD’s website during October’s Live Conference Series, is based on the brilliant work of psychologist Izzy Kalman, who created a curriculum called Bullies to Buddies (bullies2buddies.com).  The program is a social skills approach that is based not on punishing bullies, but on helping victims learn ways to respond, which quickly reduces the bullying and leaves the child empowered, no longer a helpless victim reliant on adults to solve their problems. 

The program will:

     •  Help parents learn how to effectively support their child if they are being bullied

     • Explore parenting methods that help “bully proof” your child

     • Teach parents simple responses that will dramatically reduce aggression between kids while  increasing their resilience, independence and emotional maturity.

On Wednesday, February 9 at 7:15 PM at Scotch Plains Municipal Building, Lower Level, SPTV Studio, The C.H.I.L.D. Organization is proud to welcome Connie Palmer, LCSW.  Ms. Palmer is Certified as a Bullies to Buddies trainer.

This FREE program is part of the regular monthly programming sponsored by The CHILD Organization of Scotch Plains Fanwood and is Open To ALL.  Please RSVP for the current program at 908.322.4020 as seating may be limited, or if you need Professional Development Hours. 

For directions or more info go to:  www.childorgspf.org     

 Speak Peak: Wednesday, February 23, 7:15pm - Empower Your Child - This CHILD program is aimed at helping build ego strengths with children, adolescents and teens through improved communication skills, conflict resolution and developing positive coping skills.

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