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What To Do When Your Child is Being Bullied

Find the right words when your child tells you they're being bullied, and a plan for helping them feel safe and confident again.

  • 24 minutes
  • 8 modules
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Tell teasing or banter apart from bullying
  • Listen to your child without adding your own anger or upset
  • Rebuild your child's self-esteem with repeated, written reassurance
  • Role-play calm responses that don't give a bully the reaction they want
  • Work with the school calmly, starting with a plan to keep your child safe

About this course

Finding out your child is being bullied can make you want to march straight into school. Before you do, it helps to know what to say at home.

This course gives you a clear place to start. You'll get a simple test for telling banter from bullying (hurtful, repeated, deliberate, and with an imbalance of power) and learn how to hear your child out without piling your own anger on top. Bullying wears down self-esteem fast, so there are ideas for building it back, like writing down what you love about them so they can read it again on a bad day. You'll also practise calm responses together, because what a bully usually wants is a reaction.

When you do talk to the school, go with facts rather than fury, and agree straight away how your child will be kept safe.

8 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    2 min

  2. Banter or bullying?

    6 min

  3. Thank them and listen

    2 min

  4. Reassure repeatedly

    5 min

  5. Role play and script responses

    3 min

  6. Work with the school

    4 min

  7. Check ins and time out

    4 min

  8. Wrap up

    2 min