Ladies, I have a son and a daughter, how can I teach them to defend themselves verbally? For example…

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Ladies, I have a son and a daughter, how can I teach them to defend themselves verbally? For example, when my son comes and says, 'Mom, Lyokha told me I was an idiot in front of everyone at practice,' or when my daughter came home from kindergarten yesterday and said, 'Andrey hit me with a toy...' I don't know how to react correctly or what to say. Please don't judge me, my mom never talked to me about these things, we had a cold relationship.
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Agapova Inna
Tell them Vasya is a fool and give a few examples why.
Generally, many enroll their kids in sports like Sambo so they can defend themselves. But they should be in a drama club or something similar. 😀 Because the ability to talk your way out of things, to respond in a way that the opponent won't approach you on that issue again, is needed in childhood and in adult life. And the ability to punch might work until you're 12-13. After that, even without physical violence, this child will be ostracized by the group if necessary. But quick-witted people are loved by everyone.
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Ekaterina
Mirror everything
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Olga Tihonova
I usually say something like: And what do you think, are you stupid?
— Of course not.
— Well, you know you're very smart and do well in school. And this boy is just calling names, you don't need to pay attention to it. He calls other people names because he's not very bright himself.

Then we also talk about how it's bad to call names and how hurtful it is to others. And that if he's angry or arguing with someone, he shouldn't call names.

Well, and if they hit him, if it's in a group, I say he needs to complain to the elder: the coach, the teacher.
If it's on the street, it depends on the situation 😅 either don't engage and leave, or fight back, and also tell an adult about it all.
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Asya
There are all sorts of "Andreevs" in the garden, we scared dad😀. The daughters warn him a couple of times, then dad comes into the garden.
As for the older one, you should have told him, "I hear that from a fool." Turn around and leave so he doesn't have time to think of anything 😀 I would try to play out such situations with toys. He plays a good boy (not himself) who was offended by a word, and you play a bad boy (not the boy who offended), who calls names. And let him come up with what to say to him, a few options.
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Olga
That happened to me too. I told the coach, and the coach talked to everyone, saying if anyone else called names, they'd be kicked off the team. That settled it.
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Olya
Develop a sense of self-irony and humor in your child.
The ability to laugh at oneself and the situation genuinely defuses many conflicts.
And if it's just "teasing," you can try teaching your child a phrase like, "You can have any opinion about me. It's irrelevant to me."

The main thing is to speak confidently.
The child won't understand the meaning of the phrase and will get confused. But that's not a given.
And even if they do understand. That's fine too. It's a suitable phrase.
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