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How can you know?

  • Encourage, even insist that you meet your child's friends

  • Make contact with the friend's parents

  • Talk to your child's teacher

  • Take action if you don't like what you see or hear

Hopefully you will know before there is a crisis.

How to deal with a crisis

If you reach a crisis where your child is in troubleĀ  Friends hugging

  • Give the appropriate punishment

  • Make sure your child takes appropriate responsibility

  • Find out as much about the history of the problem as you can

  • Talk to the experts including counselors, teachers etc

  • Come up with an action plan i.e. what are you going to do about this and when?

  • Make sure you have a backup i.e. if the action plan isn't working, what do I do?

  • Get professional help if you need it e.g. therapist, social worker