Aaze
April 17, 2014, 6:47am
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Re: Bullies and cyberbullies
I think as a parent you have to work on making sure you are careful about what you say about others or how you feel or think about them in front of your kids. If kids see you putting down every other person, they are gonna pick up on that too. Tolerance is taught by actions. Kids are naturally curious and they question things that may be different but to share strong stereotypical opinions in front of them sort of validates that it is okay to pick and mock someone. I don’t want my kid to be a victim or a bully but ideally I want them to stand up for themselves. I wasn’t really bullied and I was this straight laced immigrant fourth grader. Kids were nicer back then. Now, they can probably and most likely make me cry.
This.
I’ve never been bullied and never bullied anyone either but on the other hand I’ve never stopped anyone for bullying someone else. I always feel bad for that part because now I wish I had said something instead of keeping my mouth shut.