One of the signs that we have that things are not going as well as we need them to go for our children is the amount of bullying that we\u2019re seeing in society. And unfortunately we\u2019re seeing it in children as young as four and five where there are racial slurs, where little ones are excluded from playing; we don\u2019t want you to play with us, you\u2019re not coming to my party, so relational aggression as well as physical aggression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But when we\u2019re talking about bullying, we\u2019re talking about the possibility of children of four and five and six years of age to be using a power differential, it happens that early, hierarchies in the social network start very, very, very, very young. Where do we see the bullying happening most and that\u2019s in the absence of an adult culture that says everybody gets to play. When you don\u2019t have an adult culture that says at the heart we are a civic community whether in a group of five or a group of 55. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So bullying in the context of say child care is very much, in my experience, a reflection of what are the adults up to? What are they attending to? And if they\u2019re attending to following curricular expectations instead of attending to the social and emotional development of all the children, then you\u2019re going to get different outcomes. If it\u2019s alright, they think it\u2019s just a rite of passage that kids have these racial slurs or these exclusionary and you know, that\u2019s what kids do, then they\u2019re going to allow it and it multiplies. So it has to be addressed really as a group of adults and have dialogue, dialogue, dialogue with the kids about it. As well, lots of great books that kids can then have conversations about, about bullying and what it feels like. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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