A Unique Family Game Experience
CHILDREN AND GANGS
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Gang-involved youth are more likely to engage in substance abuse and high-risk sexual behavior and to experience a wide range of potentially long-term health and social consequences, including school dropout, teen parenthood, family problems and unstable employment.
WARNING SIGNS OF BULLYING
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Some Warning Signs can be: Your child has few, if any friends, with whom he or she spends time with, has lost interest in school work or suddenly begins to do poorly in school. Appears anxious and suffers from low self-esteem. Appears sad, moody, or depressed.
FORMS OF BULLYING
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​Physical Bullying is the most obvious form of intimidation. Verbal Bullying often accompanies physical bullying. Emotional or Social Bullying is another type of bullying widely overlooked. A bully may deliberately exclude you from a group activity such as a party or school outing.
EFFECTS OF BULLYING
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Bullying can cause victims to experience:
Fear, Depression, Loneliness, Anxiety,
Low self-esteem, Physical illness and Suicidal thoughts. The fear and anxiety caused by being a bully victim can make it difficult to focus at school. In some cases, children have even thought suicide was the answer.
Let's Chat is a board game that encourages the parent to discuss serious issues with their children in a fun, friendly environment, from a very young age so that as they grow older you have built a very solid foundation of information as to what bullying and the different forms that bullying comes in. You also have the opportunity to develop an environment where your child feels comfortable in "chatting" with you about everything that they face in these impressionable years. Because you have been playing "Let's Chat" with your children for years, your child will realize that talking with their parent about these subjects is acceptable and
non-threatening. It can even be FUN!
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Let's Chat is unique in the fact that it literally grows up with your child. When your child is younger you are creating an an open communication atmosphere approaching serious issues in a delicate manner and as they get older you are able to expand upon the serious issues with age appropriate conversations. Certainly your conversation with a 5 year old will be different than with a 10 year old. But all the while, you are building a knowledge bank of information on serious issues your child may have to face.
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Because every family has different dynamics, Let's Chat gives you the opportunity to discuss these issues in a way that is best suited for your individual family. While school may address these issues, they are addressed in such a generic way that it may not be suitable for your family with it's unique set of circumstances.
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Open communication between a parent and child can be the most effective way of shaping your child's growth and future. But in many cases parents do not know how to talk with their child about such important topics without making it sound scary or even worse, a lecture. Let's Chat takes away the awkwardness of these subjects and puts them in a very "matter of fact" way. And because your child will love playing the "Let's Chat" board game with you, you have the opportunity to reinforce what you have taught them.
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Data shows every year kids are starting to encounter some form of bullying at younger ages. No longer is addressing the issue with your children in their teen years acceptable. Data also shows that children learn from repetition, and in an serious situation you want your child to know right away, without hesitation, how to react to a serious issue. Hoping that your child will know how to react is not good enough.
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One thing parents may struggle with is explaining the difference to your children between being Bullied or someone just having a bad day. Defining the term Bully can often be confusing, and is best discussed when you and your child are both focusing on each other. Children will often tell you exactly what is going on if you just take the time to dedicate your focus to "chatting" with them.
The emotional effects that Bullying can have on children are so devastating, that they can shape and mold their entire life. Hopefully you will never have to experience this, but if you do, open communication will be one of the many tools you will use to weather the storm. Your child has to feel as if they can talk to you and that they are taken seriously.
"Let's Chat" addresses Bullying and Gang Violence with questions like:
-What should you do and who can you talk to if you feel like you are being bullied?
-Should you ever make fun of anybody just because they are different?
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You then have the chance to discuss these issues with your child in a safe, secure, and comfortable setting. And with answers and solutions that fit your family!
Let's Chat!
Bullying and Gang Violence
