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Adults who bully children?
I did a quick search here and didn't see anything about how children
can deal with adult bullies. By that, I mean familiar adults who engage in emotional cruelty, humiliation, or even subtler tactics, such as manipulation, of kids. Nothing physical or illegal. Of course, kids can threaten to tell the parents, but adults may have ways around that. Not to mention that kids may not always know when they're being manipulated. Any stories to tell? (There's amazingly little to be found in Google under several different searches I tried, aside from the debate over corporal punishment in schools.) Just wondering, especially since Dr. Rosemond, especially, never seems to discuss this! Lenona. |
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On May 20, 5:44 pm, Banty wrote:
In article says... I did a quick search here and didn't see anything about how children can deal with adult bullies. By that, I mean familiar adults who engage in emotional cruelty, humiliation, or even subtler tactics, such as manipulation, of kids. Nothing physical or illegal. Of course, kids can threaten to tell the parents, but adults may have ways around that. Not to mention that kids may not always know when they're being manipulated. Any stories to tell? (There's amazingly little to be found in Google under several different searches I tried, aside from the debate over corporal punishment in schools.) Just wondering, especially since Dr. Rosemond, especially, never seems to discuss this! Lenona. Why would I want to discuss that with a childfree regular? Banty So, don't. Just get the subject started, in another thread if you will. Seems to me it's pretty important. SOMEONE had to bring up the subject first. I remember when Cathy Young wrote the book "Ceasefire!" (about the battle of the sexes) and some men complained angrily in "Reason" magazine (which she writes for) that a woman shouldn't be the one picked to write about men's rights in that magazine, even favorably. She responded that no man had volunteered. (Of course, aside from the magazine, there are plenty of recent BOOKS on the subject.) Anyway, as I said, Rosemond is more than a bit chicken on this subject. While I don't remember his ever saying "the adult is always right," it's very seldom he even says things like the following: "I will not take my child's side in a dispute with the teacher, even if I think the teacher's being slightly unfair. If I think she's being very unfair, I'll ask someone else's opinion before talking with her." Since this is so rare for him to say, it leads to grim misunderstandings like this: http://home.earthlink.net/~frenetic/...4.01_arch.html (Scroll to April 23.) Finally, it's not my fault I don't want kids; my little brother screamed so much as a baby, I KNEW I could never tolerate them. (I read once that for that reason, it's the youngest child in a family who is most likely to have children too soon, never having lived with a baby.) Lenona. |
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