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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 302.34 EAN: 9781416974734 ISBN: 1416974733 Label: Aladdin Manufacturer: Aladdin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: October 28, 2008 Publisher: Aladdin Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Studio: Aladdin Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: On the internet, on playgrounds, and in schools across the country, thousands of elementary and middle school kids are picked on, teased, and harassed by bullies. It's something that can jeopardize a child's development -- unless they have the tools to help stop bullying in its tracks. In Jay McGraw's Life Strategies for Dealing with Bullies, McGraw helps kids identify potentially harmful situations and deal with bullies through tips, techniques, and examples that apply to real-life situations. Jay doesn't just speak about the bullies -- he also speaks to the bullies themselves to help them change their ways. Jay takes a no-nonsense approach to bullying and the ways readers can handle it. This timely and much-needed book will be the tool kids across the country can use to stop being victims -- and take back the power in their lives. Average Rating:
 Rating: - An Important Topic and A Good BeginningThis book is written for kids - middle-school age to read on their own. There is relevant information for all ages, parents, teachers and schools. Each chapter offers a "personal bully story", Jay McGraw's thoughts and then a chapter review with journal exercises. In the earlier chapters, I found myself appreciating the true story/scanning the review and the journal entries for kids to try. I felt that Jay's thoughts droned on, repeated himself a lot and could easily lose a young reader. Chapter ... Read More Rating:  - Nothing new, but a good primer for a child being bulliedThe most important piece of information this book describes is how weak the bully actually is. I hope Jay McGraw is able to write a future book on how the internet has created a more pervasive and more dangerous form of bullying and the strategies for coping. Now THAT would be an important book. I hope that he does explore this growing problem. Rating: - Quite Diluted and StrangeWhile this book looks at the bullying from many sides, it is quite boring and wastes quite a bit of space on obvious facts. It also seems to go too far in its definitions: basically, anyone who doesn't do what you want them to do falls into the author's definition of a bully. It may be OK for a school or kindergarten teacher if they need a quick list of bullets on any topic related to bullying. Rating:  - Great Book!!I don't care for the author's father much so I was a little skeptical about Jay's abilities. Boy did he prove me wrong! The author is employs a very reader friendly lay out to explain every chapter of bullying (cyber bullying, physical bullying, verbal bullying, etc). I'm a therapist and work with children and adults and see the ramifications of bullying and it is a serious topic. I loved that Joy pointed out that laughing along, or not stopping YOUR friend who is bullying someone IS actively participating ... Read More Rating: - could be life-changingJay McGraw's 'Dealing With Bullies' is intended for readers who are actually doing it--dealing with bullies. The author is a lawyer with an undergraduate degree in psychology and has his own Hollywood production company. He is the author of several other self-help books. He is the son of tv advise-Guru 'Dr. Phil.' Because of this or perhaps in spite of it, the book is full of common sense observation and advise for a school kid who just wants to get along without being a painful target or inflicting ... Read More 
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