Why Is Everybody Always Picking on Me?: A Guide to Handling Bullies (Education for Peace) [Paperback]

Terrence Webster-Doyle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1997 | Series: Education for Peace

This is a workbook for bullies and victims ages eight to fourteen. With sample dialogue and exercises, it teaches children to respect themselves and introduces them to a variety of threatening situations and how to resolve them nonviolently. It also includes notes to teachers on how to combine various lessons for the most effective teachings.

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About the Author

Terrence Webster-Doyle is a martial arts sixth-degree black belt, former schoolteacher and administrator, Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Commission task force member, and parent of five daughters. He has written twenty-one internationally acclaimed, award-winning books on conflict education and the martial arts, and is co-founder and director of Martial Arts Partners for Peace. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 133 pages
• Publisher: Education for Peace Pubns; New edition edition (1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942941225
• ISBN-13: 978-0942941227
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #703,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #84 in Books > Children's Books > Sports & Games > Sports > Martial Arts

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book was very informative and fun to read., October 10, 2001

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This review is from: Why Is Everybody Picking On Me: Guide To Handling Bullies (Paperback)

This book tells about bullies and victims and teaches how to be neither one. It explains how bullies may become that way because they are bullied or are hurt inside. It helped me to look at bullies in a different way and made me feel sorry for them. The book also talks about different types of bullies and how some bullying is seen as "successful". Victims are sometimes attacked by bullies because they act like "poor me" and the bullies see that as a sign of weakness. The books tells how not to act like a victim and to not BE a victim. I really liked the role-playing and questions that helped me think of ways to avoid a fight. I also liked the stories. This book was very informative and fun to read. I learned a lot of things that will help me to become the best person I can be. Thank you, Dr. T!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I would recommend this book to anyone., October 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Why Is Everybody Picking On Me: Guide To Handling Bullies (Paperback)

This book was based on solving a conflict nonviolently. It helps victims defend themselves from the bully nonviolently; physically and verbally. It helps bullies recognize that they are bullying and to stop. And it teaches you how to help somebody you know, to stop bullying. It teaches you how to recognize your feelings and to help control yourself. It helps you to control the bully or victim inside of you. I liked this book because it taught me that without even trying, you can bully. It's made me see the bully and victim inside of me, and in a way I've been nicer and have not "bullied" people as much as I have been in the past. My mother has also seen a very big difference since I've read this book. It has helped me a lot. I don't think that there was anything I didn't like about this book. I think it had some very moral values. I would recommend this book to anyone. Now I want to read the others.

Caitlin (Age 15)

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AN EXCELLENT BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE COPING WITH BULLYING, February 7, 2001

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F. Doyle - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Why Is Everybody Picking On Me: Guide To Handling Bullies (Paperback)

I felt this book was excellent in laying out clear specific techniques that one could use to help them creatively deal with bullies and bullying. Getting out of a bully situation is so hard for so many people and this book makes it easy to see how one can do it. It took away the feeling of helplessness, and empowered me with skills I could use all of the time. I was intrigued by each of the techniques, like the trickery technique. I realized this is something that all of nature does for survival. Just like the moth that makes itself look like a leaf so as not to be eaten. Brilliant! But not only does this book gives you tools to defeat bullying, it also explores the root of bullying and conflict so that it can be prevented before it starts. Often, we may not realize how each of us may bully at times, because of our conditioning. This book showed me how to look at that conditioned behavior and to be aware of it. The problem is not just being bullied, but bullying. And this book does an excellent job of dealing with both. I suggest any parent buying this book for their child whether they are bullied or not.