Bullies & Victims: Helping Your Child Survive the Schoolyard Battlefield

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Summary: This book takes on school bullying with power and answers.
Review: Bullies & Victims is powerful testimony and documentation of how bullying in the school maims and damages both the victim and the bully. The all-too-frequent ability of one's peers to mete out cruelty and abuse is painful to read but necessary to face. The authors show how the long-term effects of these destructive conflicts have grave consequences for schools, families and society. But this fine book does not just describe the abuse and then simply wring its hands. The Frieds have practical and creative solutions and interventions which should galvanize schools, teachers, parents and everyone to action: a crash program to eliminate bullying from our schools so that our children are free of fear and free to flourish.

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Summary: Bullies and Victims is invaluable to school counselors.
Review: Bullies and Victims made crossing a playground more difficult. I now see the bullies and victims that had always been there. It is impossible to ignore them now. More importantly, Bullies and Victims has provided me with the tools to address this complicated problem. When I finished reading it I shared it with my family, administrators, teachers, and most importanly, other school counselors. Not only has it helped me better help my students, I realize that we all have a responsiblity as witnesses in our schools and in our communities to help our chilren.

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Summary: Fabulous book for every parent, educator, and child.
Review: Deserves a ten star rating. Every parent and educator must read this piece of literature. She is on target about the problem in American Schools. Bullies and Victims should be on the required list at every learning institution from college to daycare. Read to learn how to change your 1-100 year old for life. A real eye- opener. Denise Caresio Reading Specialist Middle School Teacher

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Summary: Excellent study on bullies and bully prevention
Review: I am working on a seminary doctoral project on bully prevention. This book was an invaluable resource for the project. Parents need to understand the difficulties and hardships that today's children must endure.

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Summary: Excellent study on bullies and bully prevention
Review: I am working on a seminary doctoral project on bully prevention. This book was an invaluable resource for the project. Parents need to understand the difficulties and hardships that today's children must endure.

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Summary: Buy this for your school
Review: This is a must-read for today's parents and educators. Buy one for yourself, and one as a donation to your school's resource library--that's what I did. This book helps us empower our children, awaken ourselves to the ongoing crisis on the playground, and break the cycle of abuse. Many victims become bullies...and many more children are silent witnesses to a secret code of intimidation that can lead to horrific violence over time. This book is an excellent tool to break the cycle. We owe it to our children to give them skills with which to break out of the typical victim/bully/witness trap. They will be better for it, and safer. Buy two now.

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Summary: Buy this for your school
Review: This is a must-read for today's parents and educators. Buy one for yourself, and one as a donation to your school's resource library--that's what I did. This book helps us empower our children, awaken ourselves to the ongoing crisis on the playground, and break the cycle of abuse. Many victims become bullies...and many more children are silent witnesses to a secret code of intimidation that can lead to horrific violence over time. This book is an excellent tool to break the cycle. We owe it to our children to give them skills with which to break out of the typical victim/bully/witness trap. They will be better for it, and safer. Buy two now.

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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: This is a pretty good book. I also recommend Helen Smith's "The Scarred Heart: Understanding and Identifying Kids Who Kill," which has a lot to say about the way bullying can lead to serious violence when schools don't take it seriously -- and some examples from schools that have dealt with bullying well, along with some that have dealt with it badly.

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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: This is a pretty good book. I also recommend Helen Smith's "The Scarred Heart: Understanding and Identifying Kids Who Kill," which has a lot to say about the way bullying can lead to serious violence when schools don't take it seriously -- and some examples from schools that have dealt with bullying well, along with some that have dealt with it badly.