Supplement the reading of children’s storybooks about friendship and bullying by equipping yourself to support your children as they navigate the ways to friendship, and as they seek ways to handle bullies at school or at other activities.

Seek advice from your child’s teachers and also from the clergy and/or educator at your church. Be sure to read at least one of the excellent books on this month’s list:

Children's Friendships: The Beginnings of Intimacy (Understanding Children's Worlds) by Judy Dunn and Jerome S. Bruner  

Good Friends Are Hard to Find: Help Your Child Find, Make, and Keep Friends by Fred Frankel and Barry Wetmore   

Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me: The Top 25 Friendship Problems and How to Solve Them by Michele Borba, Ed.D.

The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell

The Unwritten Rules of Friendship: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Make Friends by Natalie Madorsky Elman and Eileen Kennedy-Moore

You Can’t Say You Can’t Play by Vivian Paley