🚶walk away✋say stop👫stay together🧑🏫tell a grown-up
When someone keeps being unkind.
The big ideaBeing picked on is never your fault. Walk away, say stop, and tell a grown-up.
How it works
When someone is unkind on purpose, again and again, it is called bullying.
Being picked on is never the fault of the one who is picked on.
Walk away, say stop, stay with friends, and tell a grown-up. Keep telling until someone helps.
What Kit does.
Example 1: Say stop, and walk away
Kit takes a slow breath and stands next to Dot, tall and calm.
He says, 'Stop. That is not kind.'
They walk away together, and Bun and Rex come along too.
Example 2: Stay with friends
Friends in a group feel braver.
It is harder to pick on a group.
Kit stands with Dot, and does not laugh along.
👫stay together💚feel braver🤝stand beside a friend
Friends stand together.
Example 3: Telling is not tattling
Fen teases Dot again, and saying stop did not work.
Kit says, 'Let's tell our teacher.'
Telling keeps people safe and happy, and a grown-up cannot help with something they do not know about.
Example 4: Keep telling
If the first grown-up does not help, tell another one.
Keep telling until someone helps.
The teacher talks with Fen, then with Dot, who feels heard and much lighter.
Words to know
bullying
Being unkind on purpose, again and again.
tell
To let a grown-up know, so they can help.
tattling
Telling just to get someone in trouble. This is different from telling to keep people safe.
firm
Strong and steady.
Watch out
Being picked on is never your fault. Nobody deserves it.
Do not laugh along to fit in, because the teasing can go on.
Do not keep it a secret. Grown-ups cannot help if they do not know.
Do not say mean things back. Walk away and tell a grown-up.
Try it
Whose fault is it when someone is picked on?
What can you do when someone keeps being unkind?
Is telling a grown-up the same as tattling?
What if the first grown-up does not help?
Answers: 1. never theirs · 2. walk away, say stop, tell a grown-up · 3. no · 4. tell another grown-up
Try at homeTalk with a grown-up about who to tell if someone keeps being unkind, and name two grown-ups you trust at school and one at home.
For grown-upsIf your child tells you about this, say 'thank you for telling me' and stay calm, as Kit's teacher did, and never ask whether they did something to cause it. Help them name two grown-ups they can tell at school and one at home.
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