This really hits home....this boy lived just 10 minutes from us. It is heart wrenching that this ever happens. Bullying needs to end, plain and simple. As parents we all need to sit down today, right now, and explain to our children, on an age appropriate level what bullying means and how if affects people.
Kids may think it's all fun and games now but I have never heard of a grow-up who used to bully be proud of what they did. Most likely them are ashamed of their childish behavior. And only now can they see what affects their actions had on people. It can truly eat away at people for years told come. Almost as a pay back for all the years of bullying they did as a youngster.
I recently heard a story of a father who went into a counselors office at the Feeding Center. He walked into her tiny office and just began to sob uncontrollably. After cried for about 10 minutes he told her he did this. (His son was born with a cleft lip and palate and was missing an ear.) She assumed that he had a relative with a cleft that he passed down to his child. He just kept saying he did this. He told her he used to bully kids so badly when he was younger this was god's way of getting him back.
Parents and teachers need to educate children on what bullying can do to people. The after math of both bullies and the kids that are bullied follow you long into adulthood. It has to stop somewhere because it's never going to go away unless people step up and do something. I know I sound like a broken record but the squeaky wheel gets the most grease! So if you see someone being bullied say something! It's so wrong on so many levels. These poor children are killing themselves!
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