Teasing Hurts - What to Do About It
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Kids will tease you. Everyone gets teased. But knowing that does not make it any fun. It hurts feelings and is mean.
You cannot stop people from teasing you but you can control what you will do when people do tease you.
Here are some ideas to help you. These ideas will give you ways to deal with teasing.
Talk to Your Self. Think about what you can say to yourself (in your mind) when someone is teasing you. For example you could think, “I don’t like this teasing, but I can handle it.”
Ask yourself, “Is the tease true?” Usually it is not.
Also ask yourself, “Whose opinion is more important . . . the teaser’s or mine?” Think about your good qualities instead of the mean remarks.
Also, tell yourself that God loves you.
Ignore the Teasing. If you get mad or start crying the teaser will just do it more. Ignore the teaser.
Do not look at or respond to the teaser. Pretend that the teaser is invisible and act as if nothing has happened. If you can, walk away from the teaser. You can practice “ignoring” by acting it out with your parents or friends. Have them pretend to tease you then practice ignoring.
Ignoring may not work as well if someone is teasing you all the time. Then you can use one of the other ideas, but for someone who is just being mean to you once it may work.
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