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Jay McGraw's Life Strategies for Dealing with Bullies | 
 enlarge | Author: Jay Mcgraw
Creators: Steve Bjoerkman, Dr. Phil Mcgraw
Publisher: Aladdin
Category: Book
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 47989
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1416974733
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.34
EAN: 9781416974734
ASIN: 1416974733
Publication Date: October 28, 2008
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Product Description
"Every day after that, Danny does something to frighten Craig....Craig is smaller and far too scared to tell even his parents, let alone his teachers. He is miserable. And every day, Danny tries harder to make it worse."On the internet, on playgrounds, and in schools across the country, thousands of elementary and middle school kids are picked on, teased, and harassed by bullies. It's something that can jeopardize a child's development -- unless they have the tools to help stop bullying in its tracks. In Jay McGraw's Life Strategies for Dealing with Bullies, McGraw helps kids identify potentially harmful situations and deal with bullies through tips, techniques, and examples that apply to real-life situations. Jay doesn't just speak about the bullies -- he also speaks to the bullies themselves to help them change their ways. Jay takes a no-nonsense approach to bullying and the ways readers can handle it. This timely and much-needed book will be the tool kids across the country can use to stop being victims -- and take back the power in their lives.
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An Important Topic and A Good Beginning January 8, 2009
This book is written for kids - middle-school age to read on their own. There is relevant information for all ages, parents, teachers and schools. Each chapter offers a "personal bully story", Jay McGraw's thoughts and then a chapter review with journal exercises. In the earlier chapters, I found myself appreciating the true story/scanning the review and the journal entries for kids to try. I felt that Jay's thoughts droned on, repeated himself a lot and could easily lose a young reader. Chapter 3 starts attending to strategies and solutions that kids really can explore and I think this is when the book becomes more engaging and helpful. I found helpful and relatable information throughout the remaining chapters and respect Jay for doing this book for kids. In today's society, this book (and perhaps others like it) should be devoted to class work to bring this issue into the daylight of importance as no one wants one more child hurt or in jail or dead because of bullying - whether it is physical, psychological or cyber. Jay offers kids an important tool -- in writing to express their feelings and work with exercises that empowers them to not shy into shame and embarrassment or fear. I highly recommend every principal read this book and make these strategies and issue a part of the education. When my sons were in middle school, there were some bullies who were ignored by the teaching staff AND the principal because of their own fear. I had to go to the Superintendent and demand action be taken to stop this bully. Hopefully, schools today are more open and committed to doing the right thing for everyone. Good work, Jay - thanks for doing this book.
 Nothing new, but a good primer for a child being bullied January 4, 2009
The most important piece of information this book describes is how weak the bully actually is. I hope Jay McGraw is able to write a future book on how the internet has created a more pervasive and more dangerous form of bullying and the strategies for coping. Now THAT would be an important book. I hope that he does explore this growing problem.
Quite Diluted and Strange December 27, 2008
While this book looks at the bullying from many sides, it is quite boring and wastes quite a bit of space on obvious facts. It also seems to go too far in its definitions: basically, anyone who doesn't do what you want them to do falls into the author's definition of a bully.
It may be OK for a school or kindergarten teacher if they need a quick list of bullets on any topic related to bullying.
 Great Book!! December 25, 2008
I don't care for the author's father much so I was a little skeptical about Jay's abilities. Boy did he prove me wrong! The author is employs a very reader friendly lay out to explain every chapter of bullying (cyber bullying, physical bullying, verbal bullying, etc). I'm a therapist and work with children and adults and see the ramifications of bullying and it is a serious topic. I loved that Joy pointed out that laughing along, or not stopping YOUR friend who is bullying someone IS actively participating in bullying as well. Too many kids use the cop out "I just watched or I just laughed". All in all a must for parents and direct service providers (teachers, social workers, therapists, etc)
could be life-changing December 24, 2008
Jay McGraw's 'Dealing With Bullies' is intended for readers who are actually doing it--dealing with bullies. The author is a lawyer with an undergraduate degree in psychology and has his own Hollywood production company. He is the author of several other self-help books. He is the son of tv advise-Guru 'Dr. Phil.'
Because of this or perhaps in spite of it, the book is full of common sense observation and advise for a school kid who just wants to get along without being a painful target or inflicting pain on others.
Michael Gruber, in 'Valley of Bones' has a character observe "God in His great mercy, gave us middle school so that we could see what Hell is like and learn to avoid it in later life." I never went to middle school. I graduated from a 1 to 8 country school system and never saw much of the kind of behaviour discussed in this book. So I engaged a consultant--my grandson who is now in middle school. I asked him to read the book and I pass on his observations.
He tells me the book does give good tips on how to avoid bullies. Most important to his was the advise to first get real about the bully and admit it is a problem. The book has lots of stories about bullying from the point of view of a kid and then tells you what to do about it. It goes into how to deal with future encounters with the bully. It has personality inventories that help the reader to find out if you yourself are a bully.
It is a good book for every kid to read. It helps you understand how being a bully will make for bigger problems as you get older. It gives good ideas about how to educate your parents and teachers about this issue so you will have more people on your side. Grown-ups have a hard time noticing that there is a problem with bullies.
The book ends with good advise about hot to forgive and not beat up on yourself all your life because you were a target of bullies when you were a child.
My consultant give the book a five star rating--worth reading over and over and it could change your life for the better.
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