Review: teaching a positive way to handle a bully
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 3, 2013
No More does what works of art are supposed to do, inspire, teach and guide us through the exploits of another person whose experiences mirror our own.If your child is being bullied, or if there is a future bully in his/her future, this is the kind of book you want to read to your child at an early age to allow them to safely see how to gain power in their environment in a positive way.Sam is a smallish kid who is bullied by an older and larger kid to the estent that it affects his whole life.  He feels helpless at the hands of the bully until one day, Sam comes home and beaten and bruised and his mother decides it's time to take action.  She takes Sam to a Judo class so that he can learn to defend himself, and gain confidence in his own abilities to control his environment.As a parent, I can't think of a better way to deal with the subject of bullies.  Not only does Sam gain the ability to defend himself, he gains a confidence that will serve him throughout his life.  Being bullied can cause scars in a person's psyche that might not ever heal, setting them up for a life that is controlled by outside forces.  Leaving a person unable to fulfill what they feel they came into this life to acomplish, leaving them living in a defensive mode instead.I see that Ben Shomer writes other books that inspire and motivate and I'd highly recommend his works to parents.  It's so much better to allow a child to experience scary situations in the comfort of a book, and then learn how to deal with things like bullies, than have them broadsided by the 'resident school bully'.I hope there are books like this to deal with girls bullying each other, because there seems to be an epidemic of social media bullying going on at the moment.