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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]. [b] 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!!"[/b]

I get where you are coming from, but once your child hits school age, touching another kid, even in young grades, can result in suspension even where the touching is responsive to another person's unwanted touch.  You might want to ask your school if they have a protocol that they are teaching the kids.  I'm a ways from preschool, but I know by pre-k, our kids were learning "de-bug" and that I just heard a new one this year at our ES but I can't remember it.

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Interesting, I am the PP.  Does it work, for the most part?

Dang, things have changed since we were all in school!![/quote]

Well, I think it teaches kids that they are entitled to be free from harassment.  It teaches your kid to to go teachers It keeps your kid from getting suspended.

My personal experience is that ES is not great at dealing with bullying, but that MS was fantastic about protecting my son and dealing (in some cases severly - one kid got expelled after a single incident) with bullies.  No problems yet in HS.

One thing that I was told repeatedly in MS is that you never want to tell your child to retaliate.  You always want to let the adults handle it.  You never know who's friends with whom and who belongs to what gang and which relatives are going to show up and retaliate back against your kid.  I was scared into submission on this point after getting many examples of quite serious injuries sustained by the victim who retaliated.  I realize you are a long way from this age, but the lessons we teach at a young age stick with our kids. [/quote]

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