• Teach awareness of self and others in order to detect potentially dangerous situations.
  
  
• Teach interpersonal skills - listening, problem-solving, verbalizing feelings, negotiation, assertiveness, conflict resolution, self-regulation and simple courtesy.
  
  
• Model appropriate behaviour and self-discipline.
  
  
• Use incidents of aggression in the media and current events to demonstrate the unacceptable nature of aggression.
  
  
• Monitor videos and games for violence and eliminate violent games from your home.
  
  
• Challenge children to consider peaceful solutions.
  
  
• Practice acts of kindness.
  
  
• Demonstrate a healthy tolerance for differences.
  
  
• Encourage the development of positive activities, which promote a healthy sense of self-worth and strengths.
  
  
• Support the development of peer mediation programs. Peer mediation programs at schools have been shown to decrease bullying behaviour by 50-65%.

Prepared by A. Orr & T. Sparling