What would you do?

United States
June 4, 2009 12:11pm CST
What would you do if your child was getting bullied? How would you deal with it?
4 responses
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
10 Jun 09
If bullied by a teacher, I would talk to the principal. If bullied by a school mate, I would talk to the Guidance. If bullied by a neighbor, I would talk to the police. Nobody bullies my child.
• United States
10 Jun 09
Thanks for responding. There's this kid who doesn't bully my brother but annoys him and everyone else in the class a lot. My brother is more of a peaceful person than a violent one so he told the teacher(who is that students mom) about what her son is doing. But everytime he or someone else from the class complains about him, the teacher just tells her son not to do it anymore and says nothing else. So a few days later, my brother stopped complaining and started ignoring the annoying kid. But the kid tries to annoy him more so he punched him a couple of times and he stopped annoying him for a while but now he started again. So now whenever my brother gets annoyed by the kid, he tells him to stop and he does
• United States
7 Jun 09
If it was a one time occurance I'd talk to a teacher or parent about the kids behavior. I also think it's important to teach your children how to defend themselves if need be. If it doesn't stop or becomes worse I'd tell my child to do what they had to to get out of the situation. If that doesn't work then they have my permission to defend themselves as long as they never start the confrontation.
• United States
7 Jun 09
Thanks for responding.
@max1950 (2306)
• United States
4 Jun 09
at school ??????? or just around the neighborhood. if in the neighborhood talk to the parents, now being me and im sorry but if it didnt stop id get the father and in no uncertain term's tell him to tell his kid to stop, if that didnt work i'd "just happen to meet the father somewhere" and take care of it myself.
@gicolet (1702)
• United States
4 Jun 09
If it's once or twice from the same kids I would try to talk to the teacher about it. If it happens again and becomes consistent bullying I would definitely talk to the principal about it. There is no use to try to get in touch with the parents of the bullies because I teach my children to NEVER bully. Obviously the parents of those kids don't. It's a classic example of either over-giving these children so much confidence or the parents do not pay enough attention to these kids. As to my own children (i have 2 daughters), I would just advise them to ignore these kids and to learn how to fight for themselves by giving these bullies a smart-**/sarcastic verbal response. Kids are usually being picked on cause they let it happen.
• United States
4 Jun 09
Yeah, you are right. Bullies are usually very easy to outsmart so I don't think your daughters will have a hard time.