Oh and P.S. can we keep the oprah winfrey-esc posts off the forums even if it is general chat? Hell I could visit yahoo news or something stupid like that and come here with a new topic on how a kid killed themselves every damn day. It's just stupid, sure it makes for a topic to talk about but really. Are you going to go up to a RL buddy an talk about some poor kid in timbucktoo that offed themself cause they were teased in school? Probably not.
I would just like to say I for one am glad he posted this, because it has reminded me to keep closer watch on the children I am responsible for.
Thank you for posting this, Link. Words are a powerful force in our world - they can cause us to do weighty things. I do not remember being the victim of classic bullying while I was a child, but we all have memories of certain times when someone said something about you that still hurts. It is not always easy to just forget about it and cheer up.
What saddens me is that there are kids that do this type of bullying to begin with. I do not think a world absent from these types of comments is going to happen, but I think that the parents are partly to blame for how their children are treating others. If they provided an example to their kids of how to live with love and respect towards others, perhaps less of these types of things would occur.
I supervise a K-6 tutoring program at a Salvation Army community center. We talk about peer-to-peer abuse, and this motivates me to be even more vigilant in strongly thwarting it. I could not imagine how it would feel being the person supervising a group of children and something like this happening under my watch.
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I would just like to say I for one am glad he posted this, because it has reminded me to keep closer watch on the children I am responsible for.
Thanks, Link!
What saddens me is that there are kids that do this type of bullying to begin with. I do not think a world absent from these types of comments is going to happen, but I think that the parents are partly to blame for how their children are treating others. If they provided an example to their kids of how to live with love and respect towards others, perhaps less of these types of things would occur.
I supervise a K-6 tutoring program at a Salvation Army community center. We talk about peer-to-peer abuse, and this motivates me to be even more vigilant in strongly thwarting it. I could not imagine how it would feel being the person supervising a group of children and something like this happening under my watch.