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This title shows us how we can teach children to fight the impulse to bully and give them the tools to resist bullying when it does occur. It will give parents and teachers alike a new sense of the importance to children of ongoing conversations with significant adults and peers to foster children's sense of what is fair and what is moral.

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If you want to understand the power dynamics of kids, if you want to know what teasing and bullying looks like in early elementary school, then you must read They Don't Like Me. --Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys <br> Jane Katch offers us a rare gift, the insider's view of her remarkable classroom as she and her children struggle to understand what is fair and just in the explosive arena of those who intimidate and those who feel intimidated. . . In her vivid and honest narrative of classroom life among the young, we are given a reliable map of the moral dimensions of the teacher's art. --Vivian Gussin Paley, author of The Kindness of Children and You Can't Say You Can't Play <p> From the Trade Paperback edition.

If you want to understand the power dynamics of kids, if you want to know what teasing and bullying looks like in early elementary school, then you must read They Don't Like Me. --Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys Jane Katch offers us a rare gift, the insider's view of her remarkable classroom as she and her children struggle to understand what is fair and just in the explosive arena of those who intimidate and those who feel intimidated. . . In her vivid and honest narrative of classroom life among the young, we are given a reliable map of the moral dimensions of the teacher's art. --Vivian Gussin Paley, author of The Kindness of Children and You Can't Say You Can't Play From the Trade Paperback edition.

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"Jane Katch is the author of ""Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play."" A veteran teacher, she counseled emotionally disturbed children with Bruno Bettelheim at the Orthogenic School and taught kindergarten with Vivian Paley at the University of Chicago Lab School. She now teaches young children at the Touchstone Community School in Grafton, Massachusetts, and lives in Connecticut with her family."

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