Bullying & What If Your Kid Is The Bully – Interview With Parenting Expert Dr. Deborah Gilboa (Doctor G) – Ep 39

Parenting Expert and Board Certified Family Physician Dr. Deborah Gilboa (aka Doctor G) joins Jason and Alan for Episode 39 recorded on location at the Paradise Point Resort & Spa in San Diego.  Doctor G is also a mother of 4 and an international parenting writer & speaker.  The topic for this episode is bullying.  Kids are being bullied, on the playground, at school, among friends, with siblings, and the most powerful one of cyber bullying (online). Social media doesn’t allow the child to escape the bullying.  Here  are some stats from rawhide.org 72% of teens report cyber-bullying in the past year 25% report being bullied more than once 90% of teens say they have seen someone be mean or cruel to another person on social media 95% of teens who witnessed bullying on social media report that others, like them, have ignored the behavior There are also a lot of types of bullying: Exclusion Cyberstalking Gossip Outing/Trickery Harassment Impersonation Cyber Threats Flaming Here are some other interesting stats on bullying for teens: 66% respond to the bully 15% skip school because of bullying (3 million children skip school each month) 25% have a face to face altercation with the bully 8% get in a physical fight 1 in 5 consider suicide 1 in 10 attempt suicide When your kid is the bully it’s important to focus on the behavior and not the child.  In other words, talk about how the behavior is bad, not that the child is bad.  So they may have tried bullying, and it wasn’t ok.  Ask the questions like “What else could you have done?” or “Is there a different way to handle the situation?” Bullying is a natural part of adolescence, it’s just not accepted behavior.  We need to teach our children to understand …