There are a number of steps you can take if your child is being bullied, but the first one is the most important one. And that is don´t overreact yourself. Try to take a deep breath and let them know that it is okay. Sit with them. Get on their level. If you feel that happening, you feel yourself getting emotional when you hear that your child is being bullied, you are going to feel angry or upset. But you have to take control of yourself and the way to do that is to sit next to them and calm down and let them see that you will listen. And then tell them you are really sorry that happened and show empathy yourself. You can even share a story yourself about what happened when you were younger so they can feel connected to you. And then, you want to gather the facts. You want to find out what happened in a calm voice. You want to be relaxed. You want to find out who did it, if this is the first time, if it was done by a few kids, if it has been happening. And let them know that it is okay to share those facts. And once that has happened, then you are going to say I am so glad you shared that. Let´s figure out what we want to do about it. And once you do that, then you can start talking about solutions. Solutions may be things like coming up with a plan. They may want to handle it themselves, depending on the age. But if it is with younger kids, you probably need to call the school and share it with a confidential person. For older kids, they may not want you to call because they are humiliated and embarrassed. But you can say you can try to work it out yourself if it is not severe. And you as the parent have to decide if there are those symptoms that we talked about. If your kid is avoiding school or if it is so distressing that they don´t want to go to school, then you have to call the school because you need a plan. If not, let them try to do it themselves. If you can show them that it is okay to try things even if they cannot figure it out immediately, it helps them start to build skills to try. And if they work it themselves, that is fantastic. But now there are new laws in schools where you may need to let a school know confidentially anyway because every state now is developing bully laws. But kids will not want you to do that if they are afraid of retaliation. Let them know it will be safe. You will tell a confidential person and that will also help the school be on top of a problem that you may not be able to see when your child is home.