Dealing with bullying

[mimi]

This is such a heartbreaking and scary issue for the bullied child and their parents. I have not had any experience with bullying as the other posters have, however I have always been vigilant in monitoring the stories my daughter would bring home from school regarding her and her friends interactions with others (thinking mean girls mentality). I have no more advice than the others except for you to strongly relate to your son that a bully is a troubled person who doesn't know how to be a friend yet probably needs one desperately and that we should feel sorry for him as hard as that might be. Let him know you are proud of him for not stooping to this bullys level by copying his behaviour. Let him know bullys come in all shapes and sizes and that adults sometimes have to deal with them too.