What should you do if your child is being bullied at school? Here’s seven pieces of advice from Woman’s HourDuring Listener Week on, a mother emailed in looking for help and advice. She said that her 15-year-old daughter was being ostracised and bullied by girls at her school and she didn’t know what to do.
“Get connected, just let your child talk. Let all the big emotions out, say very little because it might be the first time they’ve said out loud what's happened to them. Give them that sorting space to figure out what's happened. Allow those emotions to settle and just listen.”The next step Dr Jane Gilmour suggests is to start talking and find out more about what’s happened. But importantly, keep calm.“Once the emotions have settled, you will feel as a parent, furious, upset, angry.
“We know the teenagers really want to be part of this, they want to be consulted. So give her as much opportunity to be part of that solution. But you're the grown up, you're going to go into school and you're going to talk to the school.