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Would Your Child Know What to Do?

Help your child recognize bullying, respond safely, and know when to get help with ATK’s free Bully-Smart Challenge.

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A Simple Guide for Important Conversations

Bullying situations are not always easy for kids to recognize or respond to. The Bully-Smart Challenge gives parents and children a fun, age-appropriate way to talk through what bullying can look like and what kids can do about it.

Recognize Bullying

Help kids understand what bullying is and how it can be different from an everyday disagreement.

Understand Different Forms

Explore physical, verbal, and other ways bullying can affect another child.

Know When to Tell

Talk about the difference between reporting a problem and simply trying to get someone in trouble.

Be a Helpful Bystander

Show kids that the people watching a situation can play an important role in helping someone who is being bullied.

Practice What to Do

Work through different strategies children can consider when they find themselves in a difficult situation.

Take the Challenge

Finish with activities and questions that help kids put what they learned into practice.

ATK Bully-Smart Challenge activity guide

Don’t Just Hand It to Them. Do It Together.

Some of the most valuable parts of the Bully-Smart Challenge are the conversations it can start.

The guide gives kids activities, examples, and situations to think through, while giving parents an easy way to ask questions and hear how their child might respond.

Ask: “What would you do?”

Ask: “Who would you tell?”

Ask: “How could you help someone else?”

The goal isn’t simply to finish the booklet. It’s to help kids think through these situations before they ever have to face one.

Get Your Free Bully-Smart Guide

Enter your information below and we’ll send you the free activity guide so you can work through it with your child.

    Free for local families. We’ll also send a few helpful follow-up tips for using the guide with your child.

    Finish the Bully-Smart Challenge

    When your child finishes the activities and final challenge in the guide, they’re welcome to bring the completed page to the Academy of Traditional Karate.

    Make It Official

    We’ll recognize their work with a free Bully-Smart Certificate. No enrollment is required and no karate experience is needed. It’s simply our way of recognizing kids who take the time to learn how they can help themselves and others.

    A Free Community Resource from the Academy of Traditional Karate

    At the Academy of Traditional Karate, we work with children and families to build confidence, self-control, awareness, respect, and the ability to make good decisions in difficult situations.

    We created the Bully-Smart Challenge as a free resource families can use at home to start important conversations about bullying, speaking up, getting help, and supporting others.

    Disclaimer: This guide is provided for general educational purposes only and we are only providing concepts on how to deal with bullying. Every situation is different. Children should seek help from a trusted adult whenever they feel unsafe, threatened, or unsure how to respond. The Academy of Traditional Karate does not guarantee that any strategy will be appropriate or effective in every situation.

    Academy of Traditional Karate
    155 West Street, Suite 5
    Wilmington, MA 01887