Tuesday, January 27, 2009

New Tactics To Tackle Bystander’s Role In Bullying

An interesting aspect of this study was its focus on the bystanders and their role in tacitly empowering the bully and creating the victim.  

It is also interesting that they focus on reflection as a means of mediating the experiences. 

To Ponder:
We have many children who seem to lead frenetic, disorganized and or unfocused lives. We attribute some of that to youth and some to ADD. 
But I wonder if there is validity in explicitly teaching even younger kids to reflect and self monitor.
Could doing so in settings where adults monitor that process help develop this as a habit? 

In the face of all other demands on time, should we....

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