How Parents are Responsible for Bullying

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You’ve seen it before. Movies, television, magazines, and even real life. What have you seen in all of these places? Bullying. Here’s the average bullying scenario: You have a new kid, kind of nerdy, hasn’t made many friend yet. Now you’ve got the bully, He’s probably bigger and tougher than the new kid. For some reason, the bully decides to point himself in the direction of this kid. and then someone gets hurt. Bully’s don’t just spring out of nowhere. They always come from the same place: Home. Who takes care of the bully at home? Their parents. So the only way a bully even becomes a bully is from how their parents raise them. Whether it be accidentally teaching bully etiquette, purposefully abusing a child and by association raising them to be a bully, or even sheltering them too much, a parent is ultimately responsible for what kind of person their child grows up to be.
Nobody likes a bully. A parent doesn’t want their kid to be a bully either, but they also don’t want them growing up to be a wimp either. Now teaching them how to be tough? That can lead them to trying to assert dominance over other kids to prove their toughness and by extension turning them into a bully. This is their sense of right, since they know no other way of coping with these kinds of suspicions. It’s like they only know how to live on top so they will only settle for the top. They become develop a taste for power over their peers and therefore seek power at every chance and only respect those that they consider above them, which would be no one once they develop a superiority complex. Not a teacher nor a parent could make a child change if they didn’t want to. All this happening because you don’t want the to grow “soft” and prefer their behavior to b...

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