Children may:
- Be`frightened of walking to and from school
- Change their usual route
- Not want to go on the school bus
- Beg you to drive them to school
- Be unwilling to go to school or be "school phobic"
- feel ill in the mornigs
- doing poorly in their school work
- come home with clothes or books destroyed
- come home starving
- stop eating
- attempt or threaten suicide
- cry themselves to sleep or have nightmares
- have their possesions go missing
- ask for money or start stealing to pay the bully
- refuse to talk about "what's wrong"
- have unexplained bruises, scratches, cuts
- become aggressive and unreasonable
- give improbable excuses for any of the above
