Child and adolescent mobbing: how to protect your child?

18.12.2018

Today we will talk about child and adolescent mobbing. The topics are complex; they are problematic topics that they don't like to talk about, which have been hushed up and are being hushed up. I am constantly faced with the fact that neither teachers nor parents want to talk about this; children do not like to talk about this, and this is quite natural from a psychological point of view, because bullying and persecution are the norm for children and teenagers, and this is a common situation in their lives. Therefore, only after gaining confidence in them and having some conversations with them do they begin to realize that what I'm talking about really has a place in their lives, but it doesn't happen right away...

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