Confidence Strong Deterrent to Bullying

Confidence Strong Deterrent to Bullying

Confidence Strong Deterrent to Bullying

Is bullying on the rise? It certainly appears to be as daily the air waves crackle with yet another incident of schoolyard bullying gone extreme. Social "experts" voice their concerns , parents clamour for more rules and protection for their children. Increasingly we as a society are cocooning our children in a false shroud of personal safety.

Are rules and legislation the way to go?

Undeniably we live in a meaner world but is the answer hidden in social engineering and the wearing of pink t-shirts. I spoke with several older people, grandparents to be exact about this subject. Did they not have this problem when they were growing up?

Always the answer is yes, there were schoolyard bullies forty, fifty and more years ago. There always will be. Without delving deeply into psychology as to why a child becomes a bully, let's look at how we can deal with such incidents.

Our grandparents had a solution. First, school playgrounds were always supervised by adults usually teachers. The presence of authority reduced the frequency of bullying and certainly the severity. But, as is the case today, occasionally cracks appeared and a bully was born. It was not uncommon for another child to champion the victim most often by rallying others to help him confront the bully. Yes, it often meant fisticuffs but, according to the grandparents I spoke with the air was cleared, the bully learned his lesson and went on to become a good student and a worthy citizen.

There are others I know who were the victims of bullying as teenagers. These teens turned to martial arts as means of self defense. By no means do I espouse that teenagers take up martial arts to beef up their strength for the purpose of physical confrontation, in fact quite the opposite. Being skillful in martial arts gives children, teens and adults alike a sense of self confidence, of being in control of oneself and of the situation around oneself, of having the ability of looking after your own physical wellbeing. Confidence telegraphs itself and bullies tend to shy away from confidence.

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