Jun 17, 2012
Bullies are...well, they're not the most creative types. They tend
to have a small number of strategies they use to get what they want
and make our lives miserable. That leaves their tricks vulnerable
to analysis and defusing. Jen Hancock offers to do just that for
you with her book, The Bully Vaccine: How to Inoculate Yourself
Against Bullies and Other Petty People. Should you have to deal
with this? No, but if you or your child is suffering from bullying,
you don't have many good options. You can either allow it to
continue and hope for a miracle. You can muddle along as you
already have trying a variety of techniques that only serve to make
the problem worse because you are inadvertently training your bully
to escalate their behavior because you do not know enough about how
to properly manage the rewards and punishment that affect their
behavioral choices. Listen on Sunday morning as Jen shares some of
her ideas.