Bullies to Buddies

Children's Bookwatch, Feb, 2005

Bullies To Buddies

Izzy Kalman

The Wisdom Pages

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Written by a school psychologist with 25 years of experience, Bullies To Buddies: How To Turn Your Enemies Into Friends is a straightforward guide written especially for young people that explains why kids, siblings and parents bully and how to stop it. Stressing that there are extreme situations where the only thing to do is to avoid the individual or report them--cases where the bully is emotionally unstable, dangerously violent, or planning or committing a crime--Bullies To Buddies focuses on the more commonplace forms of bullying such as verbal abuse or simple pushing and shoving. Chapters explain how bullying usually stems from the need for power--the bully's need to exert power over others by getting them angry or frustrated or even baiting them into fights. Step-by-step instructions for defusing bullies by learning to control one's emotions, treat them as people instead of as enemies, and not rise to the bait show one how to turn bullies into friends without sacrificing one's principles or becoming a bully oneself. Bullies To Buddies is very highly recommended reading.