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Books
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Healthy Anger: How to help children and teens manage their anger by Bernard Golden (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Psychologist and anger expert helps us understand how children and teenagers experience and express anger and how parents can help them to manage this complex and charged emotion.
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How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies: A book that takes the nuisance out of name-calling and other nonsense by Kate Cohen-Posey (Rainbow Books, 1995)
This straight-talking book provides practical ways for children to cope with bullying and bullies.
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Kids Under Pressure: How to help your child cope with stress by Karen Sullivan (Piatkus Books, 2002)
Today's children are under increasing pressure and many are beginning to show signs of stress. Depression, anxiety, eating disorders and behavioural disorders are also on the increase. The author addresses the very real stresses that are affecting our children and gives practical advice on how to make their lives balanced, healthy and happy.
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Parents, Teens and Boundaries: How to draw the line by Jane Bluestein (Health Communications, 1993)
Offers parents practical strategies for setting boundaries with their teenagers, avoiding conflict, resolving problems, and establishing mutual respect. It comes highly recommended by therapists and other writers.
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Unhappy Teenagers by William Glasser (HarperCollins, 2002)
Asks parents to reject the common sense that tells them to 'lay down the law' with teenagers and argues that these strategies have never worked and never will. Instead he offers an approach based upon Choice Theory. Glasser spells out the seven deadly habits parents practise and then shows them how to accomplish their goals by changing their own behaviour.
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Violence Proof Your Kids Now: How to recognise the 8 warning signs and what to do about them by Erika Shearin Karres (Conari Press, 2000)
School violence expert shows every parent and teacher how to identify and deal with the current youth crisis, distilling her research into eight tell-tale signs of a violent child and offering strategies to keep our kids safe.
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Violent Feelings by Pete Sanders and Steve Myers (Franklin Watts, February 2004)
Looks at what violence is, living with violence, feeling violent yourself, taking responsibility for your actions and how violence can be stopped.
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Links
The Anti-Bullying Network
www.antibullying.net
Scottish site with helpful advice and information on bullying for young people, adults and school staff. Lots of useful tips on what action to take, and how to talk about bullying for the first time.
Bullying Online
www.bullying.co.uk
Children who are being bullied can get advice online. If you are a parent of a child who is being bullied, you can send model letters in to school, which will find them hard to ignore. People often feel isolated when dealing with bullying - look at the problem pages on this site to see you are not alone.
Direct Gov
www.direct.gov.uk/Audiences/Parents/fs/en
Take action if your child is either being bullied or is bullying others. This government website has advice and information with details of support agencies.
Don't Suffer in Silence
www.dfes.gov.uk/bullying
Department for Education and Skills site dedicated to the problem of bullying. Aimed at young people, parents and teachers, it offers step-by-step information and advice. The new anti-bullying pack for schools is available online at this site.
Is your Child Being Bullied?
www.channel4.com/health/microsites/
F/family/problems/bullying.html
Channel 4 article on what you can do if your child is being bullied or is bullying other kids.
Kidscape
www.kidscape.org.uk
National children's charity that focuses on preventive policies – tactics to use before any abuse takes place. The site contains suggestions to help you deal with bullying and you can read the 'Kidscape Keepsafe Code', with good advice on child safety.
Organisations
ChildLine UK
Freepost NATN 1111
London E1 6BR
Helpline: 0800 44 11 11 (24 hours)
ChildLine Scotland (Bullying Helpline): 0800 44 11 11 (Mondays to Fridays 3.30-9.30pm)
Website: www.childline.org.uk
Free national helpline for children and young people, up to age 18, in danger and distress. Trained counsellors provide confidential support and advice. Lines can be busy so please try again if you don't get through the first time. The website contains information on bullying and advice for parents and teachers.
Children's Legal Centre
Wivenhoe Park
University of Essex
Colchester
Essex CO4 3SQ
Tel: 0845 456 6811 (Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.00pm)
E-mail: clc@essex.ac.uk
Website: www.childrenslegalcentre.com
Offers free legal advice on all aspects of the law affecting children and young people. The website has a guide to the law on bullying, and what schools are required to do to prevent it.
Parentline Plus
Helpline: 0808 800 2222 (free 24 hours a day, every day)
Textphone: 0800 783 6783
E-mail: contact@parentlineplus.org.uk
Website: www.parentlineplus.org.uk
Offers support to anyone parenting a child; the child's parents, stepparents, grandparents and foster parents. Runs free telephone and e-mail helplines, parenting courses and offers information leaflets.
Helplines
Anti Bullying Campaign advice line for parents and children: 020 7378 1446
(9.30am–5 pm, Mon-Fri)
Advisory Centre for Education (advice for parents and children on all school matters): 0808 800 5793 (2pm-5pm, Mon-Fri)
Kidscape helpline for parents: 08451 205204 (10am 4pm, Mon-Fri)
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