A question on bullying...Follow

You could demand a meeting with you, the school 'official' (counselor, principal, etc) and the parents of the kids involved.

No, you teach your five year old to step up and protect himself. His brother isn't always going to be there to protect him, and he's going to need to to eventually do it himself. Or at the very least teach them both to protect themselves.

Hammer the officials. It's sad, but in this day and age in schools, you risk getting punished for defending yourself.

Thanks, You've all confirmed my own thoughts on this matter.

Demand a meeting with the principal and the other parents. Principal is the head of the school and you should go straight to the top since you've already been ignored once. The other parents might not be aware of what is going on. No school official likes to call in other parents and say "your kid is the bully." They know that the parents generally get defensive. But in this way once the facts come out, the parents can address their kids' behavior at home.

And have a heart to heart with your kids. Explain that some bullies don't understand anything except a fight, and if it has to go down that route, you'll love them no matter what and they just have to accept that even though they broke school rules for fighting, they stood up for themselves. It might not be fair, but life sometimes just isn't fair.

Teach your child to use firearms. Shooting sprees, etc..

Yeah, that was my thought. It's not always the case, but most of the time when someone is being a bully it's because of trouble at home. You should have your 5 year old watch this video:



For those who don't know, the song is from Drawn Together. I have no idea why someone put it to MLP, but I couldn't find the original. =x

While I realize the rest of canada views us in southern ontario as americans I am actually canadian.

Buy a small concealable audio recorder. Instruct your son to record the next incident (or get one that will record a full day's worth of audio), and make sure he knows not to say anything back to them at all on that day, no matter how much they provoke him, other than "quit harrasing me, I've asked you to stop" and have him repeat that as often as he likes.

Edit the audio clip to that section, and assuming you hear what I suspect you will, send a copy to the principle, cc'ing the school board. Then demand they do something immidiatly, or face a lawsuit.

Also let your son know that he is never, ever to start a fight, but if they hit him first, he has your permission to put them down hard, even if that means he gets in trouble with the school that one time. He has a right to defend himself from agression. Some self defense training (martial arts, etc) would also probably go along way even at that early an age.

Send your son to school with a .22 pistol. Tell the school you're aware of the situation but since it's just a little gun you're only going to monitor it for now but you're not too worried.

How do you teach a 5 year old to step up and protect themselves? I don't see how a 5 yr old can have the wisdom to know how this is an ok time to hit someone, but when the kid who won't share with him, isn't. Maybe my 5 yr old is behind the curve or I'm not giving him enough credit, but I don't see him making that distinction all to well on most occasions.

I'd say to tell him to not engage in violence unless the bullies start it. Other than that, I imagine the whole thing could be solved if he could go and tell a teacher. When I was in elementary this kind of thing would be handled by a teacher telling the offending party to go hang out somewhere else.

If this fails, I'd say place a call to the principal/counselor and to the bullies' parents. Arrange a meeting.

If even that fails, threaten with media/lawyers.

Edited, Mar 24th 2012 4:03pm by CestinShaman