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Talk About Teasing

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Teasing can be playful when done lovingly by someone you trust and care about. But often teasing can be downright hurtful. How should children handle teasing? This issue of Kid Scoop provides practical ideas for managing hurtful comments and explores the reasons why people tease each other. Thoughtful questions will provide a starting point for conversations and open doors about a very real and sometimes painful part of childhood. Brain teasers are included as a healthy alternative to teasing others.

In this issue students will:
• Understand some of the reasons why people tease others
• Learn ways to manage teasing and ideas for practicing strategies to handle teasing
• Read a summary of Simon's Hook - a book about how to manage teasing
• Have fun with puzzles and "brain teasers"
• Use the newspaper to compare thinking and see that two people can have both similar and different ideas about the same article