Kids’ Social Lives and Peer Aggression

Friendship and Conflicts

• Best Friends, Worst Enemies by Michael Thompson (2001). For elementary-school children.

• Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues That Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing by Michele Borba (2001)

• Cliques: 8 Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle by Charlene C. Giannetti and Margaret Sagarese (2001)

• Defending Ourselves by Rosalind Wiseman (1994). A complete course in self-defense for women.

• The Friendship Factor by Kenneth H. Rubin (2002)

• Mom, They’re Teasing Me: Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems by Michael Thompson (2004)

• New Moon Girls: A Safe, Creative, and Positive World for Girls:
  New Moon Girls is an online community where girls create and share poetry, artwork, videos, and more–all in a fully moderated, educational environment designed to build self-esteem and positive body image. www.newmoon.com (for girls 8-14)

• New Moon Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams www.newmoon.com

• Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me: The Top 25 Friendship Problems and How to Solve Them by Michele Borba (2005)

• Respect: A Girl’s Guide to Getting Respect and Dealing When Your Line is Crossed by Courtney Macavinta (2005)

• Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success by Marshall Duke, Elisabeth Martin and Stephen Nowicki, Jr. (1996)

• The Unwritten Rules of Friendship – Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Make Friends by Natalie Madorsky Elman and Eileen Kennedy-Moore (2003)

Addressing Bullying and Relational Aggression

• Addressing Bullying: What Works Webinar by Wendy Craig.

• The Bully-Free Classroom by Allan L Beane (2005) Used by Portland Public Schools.

• The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander by Barbara Colorossa (2003)

• Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying by Sameer Hinduja and Justin Patchin (2009)

• Cyberbullying: Resources and information to deal with cyberbullying

• Easing the Teasing: Helping Your Child Cope with Name-Calling, Ridicule, and Verbal Bullying by Judy Freedman (2002)

• Empowering Bystanders in Bullying Prevention, K-8 by Stan Davis (2007). Check out www.stopbullyingnow.com

• Girl Wars: 12 Strategies That Will End Female Bullying by Cheryl Dellasega (2003)

• Just Kidding, My Secret Bully, I’m Sorry, Trouble Talk, Too Perfect, Confessions of a Former Bully by Trudy Ludwig (2002-2010). Address verbal aggression brilliantly for grade-school children.

• Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine by Elliot Aronson (2000). Promotes the Jigsaw Classroom cooperative learning.

• Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons (2003)

• Odd Girl Out Speaks Out by Rachel Simmons (2002). For middle school girls.

• Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads by Rosalind Wiseman (2007)

• Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence by Rosalind Wiseman (2002)

• Raise Your Child’s Social IQ: Stepping Stones to People Skills for Kids by Cathi Cohen (2000)

• Schools Where Everyone Belongs by Stan Davis (2004). Check out www.stopbullyingnow.com

• Steps to Respect: Second Step Programs Check out www.cfchildren.org for online bullying prevention seminars of the Committee for Children, a nonprofit working globally to prevent bullying, violence, and child abuse

• Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success by Stephen Nowicki, Elisabeth Martin, and Marshall Duke (1996)

*ABC 20/20 NEWS SPECIAL: THE IN CROWD AND SOCIAL CRUELTY: 02/15/2002 (Enter Product Code S020215 01). John Stossel, focusing on what it takes to be popular today, interviews kids and discovers why kids dish out social cruelty, why they take it and what schools can do to make it better. Guests include psychologist Michael Thompson, author of Best Friends, Worst Enemies. Stossel also highlights schools with successful anti-bullying programs. Cost $29.95.