Guide your children to handle bullying with confidence and positive response. It should not shatter their self-confidence. Guide them that it is a bad behavior and they must not respond back in the same manner.

You need to acknowledge that bullying impacts children ego. They feel that they lack something so others are bullying them. As a consequence, they may avoid interaction with others being afraid of bullying. You need to give them confidence that there is nothing wrong in them or their personalities and it is unfortunately a bad behavior of others which they can handle by reporting it to you or their teacher.

Make sure your child feel comfortable reporting this to you and his teachers and you need to work it out with school. Never leave it to your child so that he would learn and would be able to handle himself. It could be good strategy but a child of age 5 or 6 may not be successfully pass through this damage made to his self-confidence alone.