How Parents Feel When Their Child is Bullied...

I found an interesting article about how parents feel when their children are bullied. Dr. Glassman touched on it a little in class about how his child was bullied and how upset it made him feel. I think it is important to discuss how parents feel when their children are bullied. Some parents feel helpless in some ways because all parents want is to protect their children and do what ever they can to make them happy.  The article goes on to discussion how parent's relationship with other adults can diminish relationships especially the relationships with the bully's parents.
 A counselor discusses how it is important for a parent to remain calm and reasonable when helping their child with a bully and while it is hard try to not let your anger influence your actions. Some parents have to go as far as sending their child to a different school to stop the bullying and this just doesn't seem right. No child should have to switch schools because someone is being mean to them but that is how hurt some children get from bullying. Another suggestion the article talks about is how parents who go up to the school ranting and raving about what is going on with their child accomplish nothing and you have to be level headed when you talk to administrators at the school. This can be hard I am sure because as a parent you are so angry with how another child is treating your child.  One final suggestion the article talks about that I found interesting is that parents can try to possible prevent bullying by teaching their child to stand up for themselves. This doesn't mean to go around hitting other children if they say something mean but it does mean that if someone says something to them they don't like they should ask them to stop. Or say they don't think that is nice, sometimes when children are bullied it is because they don't stand up for themselves so the bully continues to beat them down.
http://www.livescience.com/13854-bullying-problem-hits-parents-hard.html