- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
When you''re the target of snubbing or teasing at school, it''s easy to feel like everyone else has a group of friends and you''re the only odd one out. The reality is that gossip and rumors hurt everyone, and often, even the most popular girls feel alone. Making your way through junior high and high school isn''t easy, and it definitely requires more than the right shoes and lip gloss. You''ll need a cool head and the confidence to be yourself in the face of serious social challenges.
This workbook will help you deal with cliques, teasing, and gossip, and show you how to avoid getting caught up in this hurtful pattern of behavior. Coping with Cliques also includes key strategies for sticking up for yourself, maintaining your self-esteem even when others tease you, and finding friends who like you for who you are.
The exercises in this workbook will help you to:
•Handle Internet gossip and teasing
•Stop feeling like you have to be sexy
•Be assertive when necessary to gain respect and confidence
•Find true friends and stop being hurt by friends who leave you out
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Table of contents
- contents
- introduction
- aww, poor baby—recognizing hurt
- catch those feelings— recognizing sadness
- the color of anger
- teasing: the good, the bad, and the unintended
- the endless game of telephone
- when the gosisp tables turn
- stand up and be counted
- when you're the bully—oh no!
- are you part of the problem?
- teasing—how to catch yourself in time
- gossip words and how to spot ’em
- telling the parental units without making them freak out
- dream girl vs. reject girl
- mirror, mirror on the wall…
- what’s to hate?
- survey says—what pop culture is telling you
- you’re so not that!
- know yourself
- clichés, clichés, clichés
- beauty: skin deep or inner?
- how much is too much?
- honesty: helpful or hurtful?
- independent vs. submissive
- who makes your clique click?
- a thunderclap: when the clique fights
- the enemy is across the room, and they’re looking at you
- rules, rules, rules
- if you were queen of the universe
- girlfriends’ bill of rights
- analyze this—the cliques at your school
- know thyself—are you a cyberbully?
- profile of a bully
- how to defend yourself online
- when the cyberbully is a friend
- how’s your cyber IQ?
- writing a profile bound for trouble
- create your own sassy profile
- the vocabulary of texting
- privacy counts, or how to protect yourself online
- when to activate the parental units