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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your child is being bullied: get involved.
Don't ever chalk it off to character building. If your child needs help - help. That's all that needs to be said. No child should be left alone dealing with being bullied. That's how kids get traumatized, develop anxiety, kill themselves or others...get. Involved. Be their parent. You are their safe haven.[/quote]

My 9 yr old DS is being bullied at school, but he said he wants to try to handle it himself.  The bullying involves some rough housing and a lot of verbal abuse.  This is going on in a gifted program.   It's all I can do right now to keep me from emailing the teacher and the parent.  But he wants to try, so I'm going to let him. But I talk to him everyday after school regarding how is day went, and what he did at recess (which is when most of the rough housing bullying is occurring).

I'm really torn between stepping in myself (I am definitely not a heli-parent) and letting him handle it. How long do I wait?  I know if DS gets physically hurt, I will definitely step in, but most of this is rough housing, which by itself is not bullying to me.  [/quote]

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