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Dad should go and give bullies a bullet
Alternatively, they get destroyed by them and their life is ruined.
They knew according to the mom. But I don't think most adults really grasp how different it is from when we were kids.Where the hell were the adults in all of this?
The parents, teachers, administrators etc....no one did anything?
They didn’t know that this little girl was getting incessantly harassed for a year?
Makes me sick.
The fact that a 9 year old even had the concept of suicide in mind as a potential reality scares me. When I was 9 years old the idea of suicide was such a foreign concept that it never would have popped into my head no matter what happened. How did we get to the point where elementary school kids are committing suicides? Has this always happened, and I just didn't know about it?
Very true. There's such a massive discrepancy between teaching yourchild how to be assertive and stick up for themselves, and willfully exposing them to trauma, abuse and manipulation at an emotionally vulnerable state in life. I'm always embarrassed having too actually explain this to adults.There’s a big difference between letting/teaching kids how to solve minor “school yard disputes” , and harassing a child or teen to the point where they’d rather hang themselves from a noose than go to school the next day. The latter situation should always be aggressively intervened in by the adults around imo.
The fact that a 9 year old even had the concept of suicide in mind as a potential reality scares me. When I was 9 years old the idea of suicide was such a foreign concept that it never would have popped into my head no matter what happened. How did we get to the point where elementary school kids are committing suicides? Has this always happened, and I just didn't know about it?
Never denied the bullying played a “Role”
In the same way people in the 80’s died from Pneumonia who had Aids
So terrible that we live in a world where a 9 year old even knows about suicide, let alone how to do it efficiently...
Every day i realise how incredibly fortunate i was to grow up without internet, enjoyed a childhood spent mainly outside playing with other kids, roaming free, climbing trees, building stuff, making up games, being creative, playing sports and just having fun. Teenage years going to parties, falling in love, discovering sex and feeling like everything that happened was enormous, meaningful magical rites that had never happened to anyone before. Teasing and bullying was minimal but integral to learning about boundaries, facial expression, reading others and especially developing empathy: you could instantly see and feel if you'd gone too far, in the reactions of the group or the hurt on the other kid's face. Online bullying, with its distance and clinical execution, means never getting that feedback, kids don't see the hurt real person on the other end nor do they face the immediate emotional and social consequences of cruel or rude behaviour - it's all just words on a screen. And we may be saddled with new generations now that are virtually (no pun intended) devoid of real empathy.
It's a godawful conundrum. It's clear that the mollycoddling of the parents (and in my own country, the constant meddling from the super nanny-state) is a big part of the problem in making weak kids and future citizens handicapped by learned helplessness, but at the same time can easily understand why parents become overprotective in this day and age, with all the awful things going on, even knowing that creatives these oversensitive kids who are not equipped to deal with those awful things. What gives?
The fact that a 9 year old even had the concept of suicide in mind as a potential reality scares me. When I was 9 years old the idea of suicide was such a foreign concept that it never would have popped into my head no matter what happened. How did we get to the point where elementary school kids are committing suicides? Has this always happened, and I just didn't know about it?
Snide comment aside, you riding your bike to the corner store in relative safety pleases me greatly.Horribly formatted wall of text aside, I agree. I'm glad I grew up still playing Tag with friends and riding my bike to the corner store (relatively safely).
Snide comment aside, you riding your bike to the corner store in relative safety pleases me greatly.
Speaking of: Does anyone have a good guide on keeping kids away from the connected world of peer groups? Off mobile phones, laptops, and other brain cell killing devices? Please share if you have anything.
Where the hell were the adults in all of this?
The parents, teachers, administrators etc....no one did anything?
They didn’t know that this little girl was getting incessantly harassed for a year?
Makes me sick.
Hindsight really is 20/20, as is gratitudeHmmmm those were the days. Used to ride through a little wooded path with my brother and the neighborhood kids to the local grocery store and/or wawa. That wooded path has since been taken over by the woods and doesn’t exist anymore (as if no one used it and the forest reclaimed it)...
It certainly has its drawbacks doesn't it? I've always been interested in what actual effects our constant connection with technology is going to have on our society, and I guess we are seeing the results now. Isolation and anxiety. We are basically addicted to our phones and require a constant feed of stimulation, be it music, scrolling through social media or whatever, I can admit this myself. Are kids these days just able to sit on a couch and do nothing for even 30 minutes these days? It's like we forget what it's like to be bored.