BULLYING: Solution starts at home

I have noticed from my own personal experience with my older daughter that most kids who bully are going through something outside school. Then those who are bullied begin to become bitter at home, and soon will react at school, and become bullies themselves.

Many parents now days have little to no part of their children’s education. Why? There are so many ways to be involved at your kid’s school, and I promise they will benefit from it.

Talk to your children after their day. Spend more time with them and less time on electronics. Read with them, color, draw, just talk. Once you talk to your children, you earn trust with them and they will begin to tell you what is bothering them. Yes, you can take them to counseling or talk with their teacher, but unless you are present, both physically and emotionally within the school and at home, nothing will change.

Please, I am not judging anyone, but voicing what I have personally seen while my children have attended public school. Personally as a Christian, we talk with our children daily; before and after school, about how their day went and if anything happened and we build them up through God’s word, and their strength and self-esteem has grown. We always read Psalm 18:3-I, “call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.”

SHANELL HUGGINS

Coeur d’Alene