Unfortunately, bullying is hard to stop by simply saying, "no" or "stop" by trying to stand up to the bully. It's deeply embedded in instinct and emotion. Some of the things a parent can do is make sure your child is not too peer oriented. If they are looking to their peers for contact and closeness, there are peers there that are going to take advantage of that neediness, advantage of the weakness, advantage of that vulnerability, and put your child down, belittle the child, and so on. So the less the child is peer oriented, they are saved of the sting of that. The most significant thing is that your child is shielded by a strong emotional connection to them. The more you matter to them, the less it matters what other people think of them. That is your primary defense. If there is an older sibling putting down a younger sibling, you must make sure that for the younger sibling, that you matter most. You mattering the most, you shield that child from the rejection that they may experience elsewhere. A couple of other things, you need to keep that child's heart soft, so they can feel the alarm. We all deal with bullies in our world, and if we are properly alarmed, we can stay out of harms way. It's natural to feel scared. It's natural to feel unsafe. If we can try to see where trouble is coming from, we can usually stay out of the way. The final thing is that children need to have their tears. They need to have their tears and feelings of sadness. We need to have that resilience there. When they have their tears of upset over things they cannot change, they begin to become resilient about these things and the wounds don't go down as deep. All that said and done, if your child is still being bullied, you think it is more than they can bear. It's important, as parents, to remove them from that situation. Many parents think that schools can do things that they cannot do. It's up to us as parents.