| We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
| Kids killing themselves becasue mom and dad are wimps; bullying has a simple solution that works | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 15 2011, 04:01 AM (245 Views) | |
| Pat | Nov 15 2011, 04:01 AM Post #1 |
|
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
1. The family of a 10-year-old honor student who killed herself last week said the girl had struggled with bullying at both her school and in her community. 2. Ashlynn Conner, a student at Georgetown Ridge Farm Elementary School in Vermilion County in east central Illinois, told her mother two weeks before her death that she was being bullied, CBS Chicago reports. 3. Stacy Conner, the girl's mother, told KCIA that students had been calling her daughter "a slut" and other insults for years. Though she realized her daughter was being bullied, she said she did not know how to respond. She hopes her coming forward with her daughter's story may help other families going through similar struggles. 4. "I thought my kids were strong," Connor said. "That my words to them for guidance and advice would have more weight than what these kids were saying. I was wrong." 5. Bull s***. 6 .I can't recall a single case of a kid killing them self because they were picked on while growing up. Dad told each of us to punch the biggest bully right in the nose and take a licking if it was necessary. Mom agreed. Today kids are surrounded by touchy feely parents and counselors who lack the balls themselves to stand up to bullying and pass there sissy attitude on to the kids they interact with. Stacy Connor is at fault for allowing her kid to be abused long term because of the advice she passed out. |
![]() |
|
| Sea Dog | Nov 15 2011, 04:17 AM Post #2 |
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Right Pat! My grandson, 10, was being bullied at school His Dad told him to punch the leader in the nose. This is what he did, gave the kid a bloody nose. What a time, three day suspension, had to write an apology. Guess ? No more bullying. |
![]() |
|
| campingken | Nov 15 2011, 07:08 AM Post #3 |
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Pat, Unlike when you were a kid punching a bully in the nose may result in your grandson or granddaughter getting shot, stabbed, or beaten to death by a gang. It is a different world today and many schools have become battle grounds. I am not saying that you shouldn't fight back but the bully who backs down when confronted pretty much only exists in the minds of Hollywood script writers. |
![]() |
|
| Pat | Nov 15 2011, 08:32 AM Post #4 |
|
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
I'm sticking with dad's advice Ken. |
![]() |
|
| donsm60 | Nov 15 2011, 10:44 AM Post #5 |
|
Silver Star Member
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Standing up for yourself is always the right thing to do and my kids will get the best advice I can give them growing up a brawler. Never started a fight but never lost one either teaching a bully their mistakes, they fold like the real pussies they are from my experience in school. Here in Central FL, most of the problems seem to be at the middle school level and pre-gang and we’ve had some ‘non-wimp parents’ arrested storming a bus because of it recently and that’s pretty f’ed up following them in detail. If we have a problem my kids (all girls) can’t handle themselves at school or the system can’t handle, the parents of the bullies will get an in the face introduction from me and I’m not a pushover when it comes to confrontation. Some of us bully stoppers even grow up to help fallen LE when we see it without being asked. |
![]() |
|
| tomdrobin | Nov 15 2011, 12:30 PM Post #6 |
|
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
I recall being bullied on occassion in elementary school, and others did too. But, it was unheard of for someone to off themselves over being bullied. One difference is that with all the kids constantly wired into electronic media it's impossible to escape it. Used to be if it happened at school, there was a break from it when you got home, now it's 24/7. Perhaps kids are coddled more these days too, and haven't developed thick enough skin. I recall when my son was playing on little leauge years ago (he's 39 now), there was a kid who was a bully and was constantly giving him a rough time. I went right up to him in front of several in his circle and told him if he didn't knock it off I was going to have a serious talk with his dad. His dad was a local cop. That was the end of it right there. |
![]() |
|
| Pat | Nov 15 2011, 01:39 PM Post #7 |
|
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Since it is in recent times we have been reading about kids killing themselves because of taunting and bullying, and none of us older guys remember such taking place when we were kids, I think it is safe to say that today's parents were not raised like we were and have been turned into sissys when it comes to sticking up for themselves or their kids. Or teaching their kids that standing up to the bully will generally end the bullying right then and there. I remember when I was about 12, a friend of mine and I were being bullied by a kid who was at least five years older then us. We decided to take him on the next time it happened. He stood heads over us and outweighed us by quite a bit, however we wrestled him to the ground and kicked the living crap out of him once he was down. That ended that. My brother T** kicked the crap out of a bully when he was in high school. The bully's dad was a county prosecutor. My brother was arrested for assault because the bully;s dad tried using the system to get at my brother. Dad confronted the county prosecutor in private.and the charges against my brother were dropped. Our family and these type events were not isolated instances in the 50's. Today the bullys are winning because the parents and kids are wimps. it's the same mentality that we need to be nice to terrorists and they will start liking us. Edited by Pat, Nov 15 2011, 01:42 PM.
|
![]() |
|
| tomdrobin | Nov 18 2011, 03:50 AM Post #8 |
|
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
My experience has been that bullies try and gain group stature for themselves by physically or mentally abusing others. They are usually cowards and will back off when seriously challenged. |
![]() |
|
| campingken | Nov 18 2011, 05:21 AM Post #9 |
Fire & Ice Senior Diplomat
![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Our personal experience is not revelant. School is not the same lifestyle that we enjoyed. Standing up for yourself is the right thing to do but as any martial artists will tell you the best conflict is the one you didn't need to have. The cold truth is that too many kids today don't have a problem trying to kill anyone who "disses" them. |
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
| « Previous Topic · Fire And Ice General Discussion · Next Topic » |





![]](http://z3.ifrm.com/static/1/pip_r.png)




10:40 PM Jul 11
