Parental Responses to Bullying on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association

of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that

people face. This week on the podcast, we're talking about a problem that probably every one of us

has experienced in one way or the other, and it's the problem of bullying. For many of us, we've been on

both sides of the bullying equation. We have done the

bullying and we have been bullied. This week on the podcast, what we want to talk about is

children who are being bullied, and in particular, we want to talk about how parents can help their kids respond to that

when it happens. When we talk about bullying, we often emphasize it as a problem, and it is a problem,

and it is a growing problem. In fact, there are regular news reports about children who harm themselves

and even take their own lives in response

to bullying and mistreatment that they have received at school. It's probably not that the

epidemic of bullying is increasing and that it's worse now than it was then, but there is a good

chance that things like social media spread the problem of bullying so that what had

previously been relegated to a specific area of life now is spread out across all areas of life

as it's published on social media platforms. In any event, we have to admit that this is a problem.

But what I also want to say to those of us who are parents

is that when the problem of bullying occurs, it creates a number of opportunities for us as

parents. I want to talk on the podcast this week what several of those opportunities are as we

help our children respond to bullying.

The first opportunity that bullying presents to those of us who are parents is that we can help

our children know how to trust authority. In 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 13, the Bible says

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