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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good luck with this.  My little brother was bullied horribly in elementary school, and I wished my parents did something about it.[/quote]

Thank you. Won't happen here. I push back and so does my kid.[/quote]

How do you teach your kid to push back?  I've got a 3 year old, so I have some time before middle school, but as someone who was bullied for years without ever being taught how to stand up for myself, I'd like to give my daughter the tools she'll need.  I push back now, but it was a long, difficult road figuring out how, and I didn't really get it down until I was an adult.  I'd like to spare my daughter that.  What did you do?[/quote]

I am the PP that wrote the original comment about wishing my mom intervened.  I have a three year old, too.

He is in pre-school, and there is a boy who comes over to him and squeezes him until my son gets very upset.  The other child is also only three years old, and obviously not yet a "bully."  However, I taught my son to say "no thank you!!" when he's had enough of the squeezing.  I told him that if that doesn't work, that he can take his hands, place them on the kid's chest (sort of pushing the kid away / blocking the kid from squeezing him), and while he's doing that, to look him in the eye and say "NO!!"

My husband and I talk to my son and tell him that NO ONE has permission to touch his body without his permission.  We also practice the move above in our living room so that my son can get more comfortable doing it.

I think you are handling this really well, OP.  My oldest is only three, so I cannot fully relate (YET!) but it must be maddening to deal with parents who are just unwilling to take issue with their own kids.  The bully has a sad situation at home, but that ain't your kid's problem!![/quote]

OP here, thank you.

If that boy touches your kid, the law says your kid can fight back, so teaching him to push the kid away and block him is perfect.  If the preschool ever tries to punish your child for doing this, be sure to tell them that is NOT appropriate because often times, it's the administration that gives the message kids have to take it; that they are wrong for using self-defense as a means of determent. [/quote]

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