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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stating loudly over and over that it’s bullying and be kind to a kid who is inclined toward this behavior and riding the high of a cool group isn’t going to work as a strategy.   They’ve heard that so many times in the current environment including at school repeatedly.  If it hasn’t worked so far not going to work now.

The biggest queen bee at our middle school has a mom who this is her party line and the mom is so clueless about the daughter.  Her peers took care of the issue and mom is still clueless and giving her the generic talking points and thinks her daughter is the victim.[/quote]

I said "this is bullying" the PP who repeatedly relativized issues, because "nobody is nice 100% of the time". I didn't say - "oh, well, tell to your daughter that this is bullying, and things will fix themselves".[/quote]

[b]Who cares what it's called!!!![/b]  Talk to your kids about how not to be a jerk and spoiler your kid is probably a jerk sometimes.  Unless you gave birth to the one human who never tried on being a jerk at some point in their lives.  If so, congrats.[/quote]

You clearly care very much how it is called, because you are working damn hard to make sure it's not called bullying.

Once again, for you, because you clearly need some instruction in this area: "being a jerk sometimes" is not the same as being a bully. Bullying is a continuous targeting of a particular person with the goal to humiliate and socially isolate.

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It's bullying.  We all get it.  No parent or child in this era doesn't know what bullying is unless they've been asleep under a rock.

They are bullies.  Bullies are bad.  Please stop bullying.

I just cannot stand parents who assume it's never ever their kid and never will be their kid doing this stuff.  And let's recap and not forget...OP's kid is getting bullied and it's bad.  We are anti-bullying.

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