On the fight against bullying in the UK

How do you accept what happened to you? How do you know that you're only going to church to run away from yourself and not answer questions that only you can answer. And how can you not leave it to a church or a religious group to solve your own problems?

Poet and journalist Marina Alekseyeva has written a story from her school life. She talked about how she managed to avoid becoming a victim, how she turned the tide when she realized that the aggressor had a weak point, and she was also, after all, just a girl.

How to help yourself and finally heal from the psychological trauma sustained as a result of emotional abuse by a loved one? How do you know it wasn't your fault for what happened to you? How to get out of a “toxic” relationship with honor. How do you regain faith in yourself?

Vladimir Karpovich Zheleznikov (1925-2015), a Russian and Soviet writer and playwright, has written many good books for children, including two of my favorite novels, The Weird of Five B. and The Scarecrow. But few people know that Vladimir Zheleznikov, long before he wrote the first novel in Russian children's literature, The Scarecrow (1983), which was entirely devoted to school bullying, created the script for the filmstrip I Am Redhead (1976).

Modern teenagers express their attitude to life in different ways: some keep a diary, some have frank conversations with friends, but there are some guys who speak out through comics who invent and draw themselves. There are a lot of kids among my students who create comics. They show them to me, and sometimes I can draw an idea of what is happening in a child's life right now. Sometimes children, commenting on a comic book, say that their characters are a collective image, and sometimes they admit that they are themselves. The comic book heroine Lia Katayeva (11 years old) is a girl named Tina, who has a younger sister Olya. Leah also has a younger sister, and she would like to be like her heroine Tina, a brave and bright girl. Tina and Olya have a very good relationship. So I chose for the preview a picture of Tina letting her little sister do her hair. This cute scene captures the overall spirit of Leah's comics. They have no aggression at all, but they convey the emotions of the characters very well. However, almost all teenagers face violence and bullying from peers. Even if they don't get bullied themselves at school, they often witness these situations. I've chosen several Leah comics about school bullying to be published on our website. If this topic appears in children's comics, it means that they have experienced bullying at school. I liked that Lia herself offered children one of the possible ways out of the bullying situation, namely: children can seek help or moral support from their older siblings, adults whom the child trusts.

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