Good-Bye Bully Machine by Debbie Fox and Allan L. Beane (Free Spirit Publishing) teaches kids what blowing is, why it hurts, and how to put an end to it.
Minneapolis, MN (Vocus/PRWEB ) March 4, 2009 -- Parents, teachers, and added caring adults accept that kids deserve to feel safe, secure, accepted, and valued, whether at home or at school. Yet every day too abounding kids are accepting teased, alleged names, harassed, or threatened--or worse. To the kids accepting bullied, it can feel like a able apparatus has taken ascendancy of their lives: the Bully Machine.
Good-Bye Bully Machine by Debbie Fox and Allan L. Beane
A annoyer can apprentice to stop acting like a bully With help, they can acquisition bigger means to act about others. We ambition to advice kids and grown-ups accept how blowing can start, how it can grow, and how, if we act together, we can accomplish it far beneath accepted than it is. Indispensable. . . . A able ability for allotment kids to end bullying. This book offers a bulletin that kids charge to know. GOOD-BYE BULLY MACHINE by Debbie Fox and Allan L. Beane, Ph.D., (Free Spirit Publishing, $6.99 softcover, $12.99 hardcover) was accounting to advise kids ages 8 and up what blowing is, why it hurts, and what they can do to put a stop to it. Part of the Bully Free Classroom™ band of resources, GOOD-BYE BULLY MACHINE engages kids with bright letters and different collage art.
The book opens with a agenda to grown-ups auspicious them to allotment it with the kids in their lives and to allocution with them about bullying, demography their fears and letters of blowing seriously. The authors apperceive that kids who are victims charge to be heard and accurate to stop the Bully Machine.
A agenda to kids explains at the alpha that blowing is a way of alleviative humans that is hurtful, but that humans who annoyer are not "bad" people: their behavior is bad. "A annoyer can apprentice to stop acting like a bully," Fox and Beane explain. "With help, they can acquisition bigger means to act about others." Instead of calling anyone a bully, kids are encouraged to accomplish acceptable choices, to cover others, and to address behavior that is aching or mean.
Through GOOD-BYE BULLY MACHINE, kids accretion acquaintance of their role in bullying, whether they are targets, bullies, bystanders--or all three. According to the authors, the role of the beholder is abnormally important. Part of the bulletin in GOOD-BYE BULLY MACHINE is the ability of the beholder to become an accessory by speaking up and continuing up for others.
Fox and Beane explain why they wrote GOOD-BYE BULLY MACHINE: "We ambition to advice kids and grown-ups accept how blowing can start, how it can grow, and how, if we act together, we can accomplish it far beneath accepted than it is."
Bully-Busting Activities at the aback of the book appearance how victims, witnesses, and kids who've afraid others can become Bully Free--including suggestions for architecture a schoolwide attack adjoin bullying.
"Indispensable. . . . A able ability for allotment kids to end bullying."--Jacqueline Golding, Ph.D., columnist of Healing Stories
"This book offers a bulletin that kids charge to know."--Andrea Meiners, 6th grader, Maryland
About the Authors:
Debbie Fox is an elementary academy arts and articulacy drillmaster and has created innovative, award-winning programs for children. A alum of the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada, Debbie is amorous about giving adolescent humans artistic opportunities to accurate themselves. She and her bedmate abide in Florida, abutting to their developed children. She has accounting two guidebooks for kids about her admired state.
Allan L. Beane, Ph.D., is an internationally accustomed able on the affair of bullying. He has over 30 years' acquaintance in apprenticeship that cover teaching appropriate and approved education, administering a academy assurance center, and confined as carnality admiral of Academic Affairs at Mid-Continent College. Author of the Bully Free® program, Allan has accomplished agents in abounding schools on blowing and has served as an able attestant in bent cases involving apprentice mistreatment.
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