What To Do If Your Child Gets Bullied

I don't understand it either. Why would you start bullying and then continue the course of bullying, why would you want to live a life full of hatred and negative emotion? There is definitely nothing about bullying that makes the bully happier?

I think it's all about power isn't it.

The bully makes himself/herself feel tall by standing on the top of someone else and squashing them down.

I think part of the problem with this article is that describes bullying as teasing. It IS NOT teasing, it is bullying, which is far more hurtful, and intended to be so. Teasing is not hurtful, often between a boy and a girl it is flirting, but being bullied certainly is not flirting.
My mother suggested that both my brother (at home) and the boys (at school) were teasing me. if I had realised that I was being bullied, AND, 30 years ago there had been laws against bullying, i would have been pushing me parents to get those boys into court, or, I, at least, would have been to the police about it, and hoped that the law would grind its' way into sanctioning them

Its a hard topic what to do, you would need to report the abusers to the schools psychologist and let them speak to them.

What should a child do if they're getting bullied, like the only real answer that actually works?..You have them start working out and teach them how to fight, have them take boxing or kickboxing or another hard martial art like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu..because I'm telling you that that kind of stuff can like totally transform a dude..and then have him just go at it with his bullies, so he gets suspended from school for a few days, so what, it's kind of like a vacation too, the bullies will leave them alone, and it's better that kids get this all out of their system earlier in life while that can't really do that much damage to each other than when they become full-grown adults and can do alot more real damage to each other..

EternalFire87 wrote:and then have him just go at it with his bullies, so he gets suspended from school for a few days, so what, it's kind of like a vacation too, the bullies will leave them alone

Except this isn't 30 years ago, or 20, or 10. Or probably even five. That's flirting with serious trouble nowadays, depending on the school district. Kids should be able to defend themselves but at school that gets really dicey nowadays. It's not like when I was in high school, when we fought in shop class our teachers would just stand back until we got a little worn out, then they'd step in and sort things out. That world ceased to exist a long time ago. It's really hard to be able to take up for yourself now. I'm not sure there's a good answer.