Teachers want to help, and also we have a lot on our plate.

The best way to get a teacher’s help is to make your problem their problem too.

Fortunately the strategy I’m about to teach you goes hand in hand with leveling the playing field with your bully or bullies.

What you want is to be on equal footing with all the other kids involved and for the teacher to initiate any problem solving that occurs.

The reason you want to be on equal footing with the bully or bullies is so they don’t see you as a tattletale. They need to see you are equal to them: Equally naughty, equally guilty, equally tough.

Let’s face it, being a tattletale is BF. It sets you apart from other kids, reliant on busy adults who may or may not get it.

This brings me to the second part: Why you want teachers to imitate problem solving that occu ...