It was an interesting an educative session with our amiable and ever smiley Dr Olabisi Killian who took her time to critically analyse the topic of discourse FAMILY TIME BONDING AS A PANACEA TO BULLYING BEHAVIOURS AMONG SIBLINGS from the perspective of a counselling psychologist. My Dr, the #LCMBV brand is sincerely grateful for accepting our invite and our prayer is that may the Lord enrich you greatly in all ramifications According to Dr Olabisi Killian, Family Time (FT) could be described as active allocated special time planned by a family for the family alone to be together. While Family Bonding (FB) is a family affair that brings everyone in the home together. It should be a natural affective expression that happens among family members, parent-child/ren bonding. FBT nurtures acceptance, belongingness, strengthens confidence and self-esteem in children. FB also helps the family to ‘connect’ Dr Olabisi Killian opined Sibling Rivalry (SR) as a universal phenomenon very common in families with two or more children. Depending on the parenting style(s) with which the children are raised, positive and appropriate handling of SR in the home help each child to outgrow jealousy, as a result of attention seeking behavior from significant others, competitiveness. She affirmed that where parents don’t manage SR well while the children were growing up, it could lead to so many psychological issues in an individual. Dr Olabisi Killian described bullying as an act, words or behaviour which is antisocial, deviant behaviour manifested deliberately and repeatedly by an individual/person against another individual/person as way of harming the person physically, socially, or emotionally. She asserted that family bonding time is therapeutic in ameliorating bullying behaviour in the following ways: 1. FB parents help create a safe environment for every child in the home. The parents are the children’s primary role models. The home is the first agent of socialization. Every child is important, no matter the individual uniqueness or differences. Furthermore, everyone in the family is able to communicate and open up burdens they had bottled up... #LCMBVB is proudly Librarian https://www.instagram.com/p/CGdIzXwjoZ1/?igshid=1bg3t7smvwegd
