Interviews from parents Ariadni Porfyridou: - Good morning mother, I am here today to take you an interview for the e-twinning project. My pleasure. - Let’s start. How many kids do you have? I have two children, a 15 years old girl and 10 years old boy. - How would you feel if one of your kids are being bullied? The truth is that my first reaction would be sadness, because every parent suffers with the pain of his child. Secondly, I would try to leave my emotional state to find the causes and solutions to this problem and take drastic measures to deal with it. -What would you do solve the problem (bullying)? To begin with, I would try to communicate with my child and understand the expand of the situation. You see some times kids take innocent jokes as intimidation. So, I have to know if it was a real intimidation. Secondly, I would like to speak with principal to research further the situation, talking with the teachers and the students. Finally, with the help of the teacher I will try to solve the problem. Also, I would like to communicate with psychologist in order to find a way to heal him psychologically. -How would you empower your child? Everything starts from relationship between a parent and a child. I would discuss with him and make him understand that the uniqueness of each person is what makes him special. Also, I would try to strengthen his self-confidence as much as I could. The morale his family taught him will help him in his life and he should not be afraid to express it, because only then he will become better and better as a person. I would also like to advise him to give up various groups that could create this kid of intimidation and make new friends. I would like to improve his team spirit by joining a team sport or a club so to make him understand that the purpose of life is to belong to a society and that he will deal with this kind of intimidation many times. But he must learn to cope with it by stop being the victim. Finally, I would encourage him to always
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