Drawing on her decades of work with troubled youth and her wide experience with conflict resolution and reconciliatory justice, bestselling parenting educator Barbara Coloroso offers a unique, practical, and compassionate book destined to become a groundbreaking guide to this escalating problem.

Coloroso helps readers recognize the characteristic triad of bullying: the bully who perpetrates the harm; the bullied who is the target (and who may become a bully); and the bystander -- the peers, siblings, or adults who don’t act to defuse the situation.

Readers learn:

• What bullying is and what it isn’t; the three kinds of bullying; and the differences and similarities between boy and girl bullies
• Why contempt, not anger, drives bullying
• Why hazing is a form of bullying and how cliques feed the problem
• The differences between teasing and taunting and between flirting and sexual bullying
• How to read the subtle clues that a child is being bullied
• Four abilities that protect your child from succumbing to a bully
• Seven steps to take if your child is a bully
• How to help the bullied child heal; effectively discipline rather than punish the bully; and increase a child’s ability to take positive action
• Why teaching a "code of compassion" is a more powerful antidote to bullying than conflict resolution techniques
• Why zero tolerance policies can equal zero thinking
• How to evaluate a school’s antibullying policy and much more