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The mother of a bullied first grader, popular blogger Carrie Goldman's inspiring true story triggered an outpouring of support from online communities around the world. In Bullied, she gives us a guide to the crucial lessons and actionable guidance she's learned about how to stop bullying before it starts. It is a book born from Goldman's post about the ridicule her daughter suffered for bringing a Star Wars thermos to school--a story that went viral on Facebook and Twitter before exploding everywhere, from CNN.com and Yahoo.com to sites all around the world. Written in Goldman's warm, engaging style, Bullied is an important and very necessary read for parents, educators, self-professed "Girl Geeks," or anyone who has ever felt victimized by a bully, online or in person.
Bullied has been recognized with Gold Awards at the 2013 National Parenting Publications Awards and the 2013 Mom's Choice Awards.
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When the author, a blogger for the online community of the Chicago Tribune, posted about her six-year-old daughter being bullied at school because she was sporting a Star Wars backpack and water bottle, cyberspace rose to her defense with a flurry of posts, e-mails, and letters. Goldman decided to delve more deeply into the subject, discovering that 160,000 children stay home every day from school because of bullying, 42% of kids have been bullied online, and one in five teens has been bullied at school in the previous year ("bullycides" are also an alarming trend). Although progress has been made, Goldman and the experts and parents she interviews reveal that there's more work to do. Goldman identifies kids who are at high risk for bullying (i.e., "geeks"; children with disabilities; gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual students; and kids who do not choose gender-specific toys). In fact, any nonconformist is a likely target, and society ups the ante with gender-specific marketing and expectations. In this informative book, Goldman also addresses prevention, intervention and reconciliation, helping parents recognize the warning signs of emotional distress and offering techniques for dealing with bullies (who also need help). The author calls upon parents, schools, and marketers to collaborate in order to change damaging cultural attitudes and create a culture of acceptance and safety for all kinds of kids. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents
Foreword | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xi |
Part 1 KatieÆs Story | |
1 Anti-Bullying Starts in the First Grade | p. 3 |
2 The Littlest Jedi | p. 10 |
3 Our Local Community Response | p. 19 |
Part 2 Kids at High Risk for Peer Victimization | |
4 From Geek Girls to Sluts: What Does It Mean to Be a Girl? | p. 27 |
5 Princess Boys and Nonconforming Guys | p. 40 |
6 Quirky Kids and Kids with Hidden Disabilities | p. 51 |
7 Kids with Different Appearances or Physical Disabilities | p. 61 |
8 Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Bisexual Students | p. 72 |
9 Victims of Cyberbullying, Sexting, and Sexual Harassment | p. 86 |
10 The Harmful Effects of Bullying on the Brain | p. 103 |
Part 3 Where Do We Go from Here? Prevention, Intervention, and Reconciliation | |
11 Create a Home Environment That Produces Neither Bullies nor Victims | p. 115 |
12 Set Out Family Guidelines for Responsible Uses of Technology, Media, and Music | p. 131 |
13 Changing Our Cultural Attitudes Toward Aggression and Cruelty | p. 157 |
14 Calling on Toy Retailers to Eliminate Gender-Based Marketing | p. 168 |
15 Stop Marketing Makeup and Sexy Clothes to Children | p. 179 |
16 Reassess the Role of Schools in Character Education | p. 193 |
17 Social and Emotional Learning | p. 205 |
18 Responding to the Bully | p. 214 |
19 Responding to the Victim | p. 222 |
20 Restorative Justice | p. 233 |
21 Strategies That Ease the Negative Effects of Taunting | p. 242 |
22 Creating Witnesses and Allies out of Bystanders | p. 251 |
23 Cybersupporting Instead of Cyberbullying: A Real-Life Happy Ending | p. 261 |
Conclusion | p. 269 |
Acknowledgments | p. 273 |
Bibliography | p. 275 |
Resources | |
Online Resources | p. 285 |
Reading Recommendations for Children | p. 287 |
Audiovisual Resources | p. 291 |
Appendix A Overview of Several Promising Research-Based Bullying-Prevention and Character-Education Programs | p. 293 |
Appendix B Two Examples of Bullying Surveys | p. 300 |
Appendix C Examples of Sexual Harassment Surveys | p. 303 |
Notes | p. 311 |
Index | p. 327 |