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When should I step in, or tell a teacher?

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Speaker: When should I step in, or tell a teacher?

Dr. Ted Feinberg: As soon as its reasonably clear that your child is being bullied, whether through observation, as I mentioned before injuries, they are coming home without the money that you gave them for lunch and they clearly have not had lunch or they are being intimidated on the bus or at the bus stop or in the cafeteria or the locker room, thats an immediate sign that you should step in and find out, one what is going on? Who the perpetrator is? And more importantly, what it is that can be done to make this behavior stop?

You keep in mind that there are the traditional types of bullying that we all are familiar where the children are physically manhandled or abused. Then, there are situations where kids are being abused via the internet and what we call, Cyber Bullying. So, there is variety of bullying activities that can take place and in any situation, where its occurring, it needs to be stopped as soon as its noticed.

Expert: Ted Feinberg

National Association of School Psychologists

www.nasponline.org

Email: tfeinberg@naspweb.org

Dr. Feinberg has over 30 years of broad-based human services experience in the mental health field. He has extensive background in consultation and counseling with children, adolescents, adults and families. He has worked in both the public and private sectors. In August 2000, Dr. Feinberg assumed his current position as Assistant Executive Director for Professional Development for the National Association of More »