When Sun Challenged Moon is a story for young children. Sun bullies Moon at school. The story shows how Moon handles Sun’s bullying behavior with assertiveness, and also how parents can help children without directly getting involved in such situations. After listening to this podcast your child will understand some of the techniques to handle bullying and also learn how to keep themselves safe from bullying.

Read more about this book and know where you can buy it.

Read our post on how to help children handle bullying and check the behavior.

About Assertiveness

Assertiveness is a communication skill and much needed to succeed and be happy in life. Like any skill it gets better with practice. Assertiveness helps children by:

• keeping away social anxiety
• making them self-aware
• helping them to expect positive responses.

Besides, healthy self-esteem is also a benefit of being assertive. We validate our perspective by expressing them to others and by honoring our own needs. This can make us feel good about ourselves. Hence, we can control our own lives rather than let someone else control it.

Further, building and maintaining relationships also becomes an easy task for assertive people. They respect each other, openly express their needs and tend to be elaborate & empathetic.

Help your child understand boundaries. This will help them in a big way when it comes to safeguarding their own physical, emotional, intellectual and sexual boundaries. Help them say ‘no’ boldly and firmly when required.

To read more about assertiveness in children, have a look at our post here.

Thank you for listening. Hope you enjoyed this one. Do share your feedback with us so we can come up with more interesting stories for your little ones.