bullying and self assertiveness

[BSAgirl]

Does anyone know where you can get assertiveness training/support for your children? My D1 is a fairly unassertive child who is starting to get excluded from play at her school. We have discussed some tactics she can use but I think some assertiveness practice would be really useful to her. Neither parent is very good at this themselves so help would be great.

There's a great book called bullies, bigmouths and so-called friends by J. Alexander (Hodder)

Really easy reading and not the usual 'try and ignore it / say something witty' advise.

I am using it as base for anti-bullying workshops.

Ontherainbow, thank you for the book recommendation. It is really good. DS has been bullied at school and we find it very helpful for the both of us.

Have you thought of the ZAP course run by Kidscape? For kids aged 9+yrs

www.kidscape.org.uk