Teaching Respect to Bullies

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Melisa Schenk on behalf of Expert Village. Today we're going to talk about how to deal with a bully. In this clip let's talk about respect, our next pillar of cultivating character. Respect to yourself and respect to others. In an earlier clip we were talking about goal setting, it's a great exercise to encourage your children to set goals for themselves. They need to have something to look forward to, to something to strive toward, something that's bigger than themselves. And in making goals, nothing happens unless you take action and that's the key of goal setting. An exercise we do within Spread the Sunshine is take a business card size or a little index card, write your most important goal. You can have many goals, they can be small, larger goals, but take your most important goal and write it on a business card, nice and small that you can put it into your pocket, that they can put it into their book bag and let them know, tell them to read it over and over. Refer to it everyday, perhaps when they get up in the morning or at night, something to think about each day, nothing happens until you take action. The choice of what your kids and of what you want to believe will be up to you, it's all about confidence. So in this clip we're talking about respect, valuing ourselves and others and even our world around us. It is a fact that you become the people that you spend the most time with. Who are your kids? Who are you spending the most time with? Do you want to be like them? Or do you want to be like someone else? So, again it's a fact you've become like the people you're going to spend the most time with. So, how are you going to act? Think back to our earlier clip. Act-approachability, confidence, today."