•  Possible signs of BULLYING:
     
    A child may indicate by their behavior that he or she is being bullied. If your child shows some of the following signs, bullying may be responsible and you might want to ask if someone is bullying or threatening them.
     
    Children may:
    • be frightened of walking to or from school
    • change their usual route
    • not want to go on the school bus
    • beg you to drive them to school
    • be unwilling to go to the school (or be school phobic)
    • feel ill in the mornings
    • begin truanting
    • begin doing poorly in their school work
    • come home regularly with clothes or books destroyed
    • come home starving (bully has taken dinner money)
    • become withdrawn, start stammering, lack confidence
    • become distressed and anxious, stop eating
    • attempt or threaten suicide
    • cry themselves to sleep; have nightmares
    • have their possessions 'go missing'
    • ask for money or start stealing money (to pay the bully)
    • continually 'lose' their pocket money
    • refuse to say what's wrong (too frightened of the bully)
    • have unexplained bruises, scratches, cuts
    • begin to bully other children or siblings
    • become aggressive and unreasonable
    • give improbable excuses to explain any of the above