Bingo. Learned this from my dear mother. Put the bully and victim in a room ALONE and they find common ground. Bullies need an audience.
I did this with my son in HS. Invited the bully and his mother over after our kids were both suspended. She and I drank coffee while the boys went upstairs and played video games. Never had a problem with the bully and his gangster friends after that. Voila. Common sense.
“...Put the bully and victim in a room ALONE and they find common ground...”
haha! I hear you... but my experience, growing up in North Philly, was not to find common ground, but to find a chunk of wood and then beat the living bat snot out of the bully.
THEN you’d be friends... out of respect for the fact that yeah, you MIGHT be bigger, but I’m a sneaky little bastid who wait for you to pass by on the way home, and WILL jump out of the bushes and crack the living hell outta ya with a stickball bat.. hahah!
Although, yes, your method would probably work too!
:^)