It turns out that almost all verbal bullying (ie: insults) are about 6 basic things. This means that even though bullies like to insult people, they aren’t very creative in their insults. Perhaps if they watched more Monty Python or read the 7 page curse in Tristram Shandy they would be more creative. Of course, if they did those things, they probably wouldn’t be bullies in the first place.
Bullies don’t stop just because you asked them nicely. Getting them to stop takes time and they will cycle through what is known as a blow out before they stop. …
Happy Kids don’t bully. Here are a couple of really good videos showing the motivation behind some forms of bullying. Watch them here.
Kids learn this behavior early and if we are going to avoid the bullying horror stories that arise in middle school, we need to start teaching our youngest kids not to bully and we do that by making sure bullying doesn’t ever work for them so that they learn it isn’t a good strategy.
