Parents must take an active role in their children's lives. Parents should get to know their children's friends, their children's hangouts and their children's pastimes. The youths involved in these programs learn, develop relationships and have fun at the same time. Takara Green, 8th Grade Sandy Valley Middle School, Nevada Provide school-aged children with mentors and positive role models. Sometimes all that is needed to stop violence is just to feel that someone out there cares.
Some kids like to make fun of other kids.
Those kids can only take so much. They become a ticking time bomb. After while they can't take much more so they explode. James Shurko, 7th Grade L.H. Middle School, Connecticut Provide counseling for children when they first engage in violent behavior. One answer is to make children at a young age understand that anger can be cooled and doesn't have to be fanned.