Having watched the ad, the whole “bullying” crap is a pantload by hand-wringing pantywaists.
I agree. Teach your kids how to defend themselves, then stand by them when the administration hauls them into the office for knocking the bully's front teeth out. What the Aussie kid did to the bully who was taunting him is the only thing bullies understand.
Oh yeah, that goes for bully nations as well.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
In my experience, those who downplay the destructiveness of bullying tend to have been participants in it. The schools I went to, teachers, particularly phys ed, subtly promoted it in a host of ways.
And it is very destructive.
Today’s notion that it is aimed exclusively or primarily at “gay kids” is of course nonsense.
The idea that the answer is to beat up the bully is often on a par with the notion that the way to get along in prison is to immediately beat up the top dog in there. True, no doubt, but often easier said than done.
Yep. It's one of my pet peeves as well.
I was bullied. I lived.
No, what I wonder about is what happens when one of these elite, sheltered children runs headlong into life? Either a boss who pushes too far, or a self-important "Public Servant", or any one of the innumerable difficult people you and I trip over every day? Are they going to run for the nearest grownup to "Moderate the Conversation"?