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My kids will learn to drop anyone on the first hit, or at least hurt them real bad, I be damned if my kids are ever a victim of someone whether a dopey school bully or an adult that means to do physical harm to them.
But the minute they abuse those skills is when the law (that would be me) comes in and lays a heavy price, because having a kid that is the bully is just as bad.
My son is only five, so he hasn't had many chances to interact with a bully, but I have already started talking to him about bullies. He often asks why people are bullies and I explain that they are usually afraid and trying to make up for it or they learn it from other people/TV. I also teach him to tell an adult or walk away. He has enough testosterone that I don't think learning to fight back will be too hard him to grasp!
Talking about bullying, I just finished reading 19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult--just about broke my heart. It really makes you think how you never know for sure what happens at school.
I have told my son that if you act like it bothers you, they will keep on..
I have also taught my son not to take their crap! Black their eye, one good time, then maybe they will leave you alone!
Yikes...I have a 16 year old who has not been in a fight and has always known to walk away from the stupid things..including people with smart mouths. His father on the other hand thinks he needs to knock someone out to prove his manhood. My son is stressed over this because of the pressure. But I taught him to be a man by using his brain not his mouth or fists. My son has always played on sports teams and doesnt deal with much flack but battles with the pressure from his father to knock out someone with a smart mouth. My question to him is..what will that solve? Nothing...other than maybe assult charges. Pick your battles ...Just something to think about.
Well, in this day and age, and the one I grew up in, bullying was much more than verbal harrassment, if it was only that simple.
Plus preparation for physical assault takes someone well beyond high school and into the real world where people do want to commit physical assaults on others and where most often there is no just "walking away".
Besides, who is someone to harrass my kid? Why should it be my kid that is walking away and getting verbally harrassed or physically threatened all the time and having to put up with it?
And there is no assault charge if it is committed out of self defense.
my daughter will be enrolled in self-defence classes as soon as she turns 2. I hope to teach her to walk away, but she will be able to defend herself if she needs to.
And there is no assult charge if it is committed out of self defence.
maybe not, but they will still be suspended.
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