All About Bullying

[ammonite]

Oh dear, poor girl. A few suggestions:


1. Depending on how upset she is, you can ask if anything had gone wrong in her interactions with them. If she is very upset, don’t ask.

2. Talk to her about other children in her group or sitting near her. These will be new students she does not know very well. Discuss who look nice, or friendly, chat about their personalities etc. From there, you can make casually highlight likely new friends eg E sounds like a nice easy going person!

3. If she is quite shy, discuss ice breakers and give her some help. Eg specifically give her some popular snacks to share with new friends during recess. I find marshmallows very popular and unattainable in canteen.

4. You can talk to her about how you or another older child overcome this similar problem when you were young, or at work.

Basically let her understand that this is okay, everyone experience it at some point, and suggestions on making new friends.

If the situation does not improve, you can speak to the teacher privately to help pair her up with an easy going child for seating arrangements or when queuing up.

[Chloe0312]

Thanks Ammonite.


She had been eating with a friend from another class during recess, after being rejected a few times by those 4 classmates. She seem happy but also seem like hiding her feeling. Hv to monitor her. She said her form teacher had been calling her out to do stuff for her. I think trying to make her "famous" so that new classmates will get to know her sooner.

[ammonite]

That’s great! Step by step, jiayou!

[zbear]

I heard from my colleague whose dd just entered P1 in a well known girls’ school. On the 2nd day of school, her dd witnessed a scene in the canteen whereby a gang of P1 kids bullied (hit) another girl. What is the reason - becos this girl sports very short hair n they don’t like her look.


Goodness, I am shocked that kids (especially girls) can gang bully at only P1?

[phtthp]

Is this school co-Ed, an All boys school, or all girls school ?

[mathtuition88]

zbear:

I heard from my colleague whose dd just entered P1 in a well known girls' school. On the 2nd day of school, her dd witnessed a scene in the canteen whereby a gang of P1 kids bullied (hit) another girl. What is the reason - becos this girl sports very short hair n they don't like her look.


Goodness, I am shocked that kids (especially girls) can gang bully at only P1?

I am really shocked too.
sad to hear this is happening at P1, even in a girls school.

maybe your colleague should write in to the press/newspaper if it is a really serious incident. I recall last time in RJC there was a rather dangerous orientation game called \"taupok\" (google \"Raffles JC taupok\"). After a parent wrote in to the Straits Times forum, the principal stepped in to ban the game, and it was rarely, if never, seen again.

[sembgal]

zbear:

I heard from my colleague whose dd just entered P1 in a well known girls' school. On the 2nd day of school, her dd witnessed a scene in the canteen whereby a gang of P1 kids bullied (hit) another girl. What is the reason - becos this girl sports very short hair n they don't like her look.


Goodness, I am shocked that kids (especially girls) can gang bully at only P1?

Can easily guess which is the well-known girls' schools. Those P1 girls that bullied are most likely to be from rich family background, lack of parental guidance due to busy parents and those girls were friends sine their childcare or kindergarten days. Goodness gracious! Shame on those girls.

[starlight1968sg]

sembgal:

zbear:

I heard from my colleague whose dd just entered P1 in a well known girls' school. On the 2nd day of school, her dd witnessed a scene in the canteen whereby a gang of P1 kids bullied (hit) another girl. What is the reason - becos this girl sports very short hair n they don't like her look.


Goodness, I am shocked that kids (especially girls) can gang bully at only P1?

Can easily guess which is the well-known girls' schools. Those P1 girls that bullied are most likely to be from rich family background, lack of parental guidance due to busy parents and those girls were friends sine their childcare or kindergarten days. Goodness gracious! Shame on those girls.

Shame on these little bullies. I wonder what will they become when they grow up - big bullies ???

[Nebbermind]

zbear:

I heard from my colleague whose dd just entered P1 in a well known girls' school. On the 2nd day of school, her dd witnessed a scene in the canteen whereby a gang of P1 kids bullied (hit) another girl. What is the reason - becos this girl sports very short hair n they don't like her look.


Goodness, I am shocked that kids (especially girls) can gang bully at only P1?

2nd day of school for P1...certainly that could not be the fault of the well known school, ya?

[zbear]

Why shld it be the fault of the school? Did I blame the school? I was only relating what I heard in office gossips amongst mothers especially those whose darlings just entered P1.