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I'm that poster. I have kids from college to elementary school and I didn't interfere with stuff like this and it didn't blow up into major problems in high school. A sixth grader exerting some authority and testing their power over a younger kid is normal and doesn't automatically turn into something bigger. I grew up in NYC, where the things I described that you quoted did happen. Just because I don't raise my kids by escorting them to the bus stop and rushing in any time a kid is mean to them doesn't mean I am a person raising children to bully other people's children. That leap lacks logic. [/quote]

Good for you that your kids did not turn into bullies (although if they do, I doubt that you would admit it). But those kids that do, it doesn't happen overnight. They don't just wake up one morning and decide to push someone across the street or decide to make other people's life so miserable that they have to kill themselves. Did you read that OP said she did tell her daughter to ignore it at first? It is only until it came to pushing/shoving that she made it a big deal. Cutting in line is rude but rather normal, but pushing/shoving is definitely NOT. Period.
I am a parent of a 5th grader who walk with her everyday to the bus stop. Others can say that I am overprotect but the fact is, I don't see her again until 7PM and then we only have a couple of hours before she heads to bed so I treasure every minutes that I get to spend with her. [/quote]

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