Sure way to prevent bullying

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Teach your kids pressure points and other self defense techniques. If the bullying gets bad enough, take it up with the bully's parents and threaten to sue. If the bullying continues, get a good lawyer and sue the school district and the bully's parents.

Bullies suck. They should be severely beaten. Maybe then they'd know how it feels.

Unfortunately, teachers, administrators, and the whole system basically side with the bullies. They don't care. Social Darwinism?

How can we say we're a civilized society when we let bullying happen every day at every school in the land? Barbaric.

There are teachers who do care. I had a teacher who cared and now, as a teacher myself I care and will defend any student who I see is getting bullied. The problem can lie in witnessing the bullying. I suspect a lot goes on when I'm not looking or in a way where I can't hear it 9texting, muttering, etc.), and I have no way of knowing unless a kid comes to me and says something. Of course there are injustices where adults turn a blind eye, but please, don't lump us all into an uncaring category that condones bullying. There are a lot of good teachers and good administrators who actually do care and who were bullied themselves. Most teachers weren't exactly the cool kids.

I agree with having your kids learn martial arts. It can stop a lot of problems. But teaching them pressure points without a strong foundation in martial arts, patience and wisdom can lead you to be the one getting sued. You can cause serious damage to someone if you unskillfully try to use pressure points. The goal is to teach kids how to deal with people so that the fight never has to happen in the first place. That's the mark of an advanced martial artist and a great skill that carries into adulthood.

Actually, just have them take up wieght lifting


I went from skrawny aspie=============buff aspie


People wont bother a buff guy


Pros:

-Muscles are mans way of saying f**k off. I can assure you that you WONT be bothered if your of average hieght with massive muscles.

Cons:

-People will assume your really stupid. People assume bodybuilders are morons.

-If you don't have decent employment, people will harass you about it.

-People will just put you down/make fun of you in general....

I went through several years of workplace bullying that resulted in serious illness, loss of employment and worse. Self-defence would have been of no use whatsoever. I was bullied a lot in school and, even though that was a lot more physical, self-defence would have done little to prevent or protect against bullying. Bullies always find ways to hurt without being hurt themselves. If the school, organisation, employer or society don't work against bullying, then nothing stops it - the victim of bullying gets even more suffering from standing alone against it.

Self-defence is still worth learning for protection, self-esteem and general health, but don't expect the bullying to stop.

The defence against bullying is awareness, education and political activism.

For cases of emotional abuse / workplace bullying, use a spy camera and record conversations with traditional tape recorders (i.e. not digital recorders), if the laws in your country allow it.

This is how you deal with bullies:

A lot of this doesn't work for girls. Girls don't physically bulk up like guys do, and if we do it doesn't mean the same thing socially. Plus, girls get a lot more relational aggression rather than physical, which can be as bad or worse depending on the situation, and is harder to defend against. For example... It may be pretty easy to defend against a guy who's throwing a punch at you; but how do you defend against the anonymous person who left a dildo on your desk, or the people who won't stop talking about the time you walked into the wrong restroom, or the person who draws a very crude image of you doing obscene things on the classroom chalkboard? What if, every time a new kid comes into the class, they tell this person all about how horrible and weird you are, so that they are warned off from ever approaching you? It's very difficult to defend against that kind of thing. Girls are a lot more subtle... Not to belittle what the guys go through; it's not pleasant, certainly, and on some occasions has ended in serious injury and death. But it does take a different approach when the bullying isn't so straightforward.