OK, parents, adults, teachers, policy makers we are in this together for all of our kids. I'm sure no matter what a rotten, judgemental person you may be you don't want your kids to turn out to be big assholes like you are. So, I have a big suggestion and brilliant idea to help combat bullying in our country. It is the "Teach Your Kids Not To Be Assholes" campaign. It is a great anti-bullying campaign with a catchy title that is easy to remember. Its kind of like that whole "Do Unto Others" rule, which, despite your religious or lack of religious affiliation this idea too could work for your family.
So, if you aren't actually raising your kids and the television is, please allow me a moment of your precious time. I have a suggestion all you have to do is pull your kids aside as you drop the McDonalds bag on the table and tell them to be nice to other kids. Your kids may whine that they don't like kids who are different (and you may not either). But it is imperative to tell them that they need to be nice to other kids despite their disabilities or personalities. Because even kids who have serious issues in school don't need your mal-adjusted messed up kid to pick on them.
You may have been the bully when you were in school. You may have fond memories of giving swirlies, stealing lunch money, calling names. I'm sorry you had no self esteem and got pleasure in picking on innocent victims, you may feel guilt about it now. I believe that people who have overcome bullying are much stronger for it. We shouldn't have to have kids killing themselves because you raised your kid to be a heartless , thoughtless inconsiderate asshole.
Media, maybe you need to step back on picking on fat people. It seems to be a habit, look at all the "lets make fat people thin" programs . I guess that doesn't bother me so much because my bullies were the fat girls. So to this day... I've found that fat women always envy thin women... Maybe you are causing some of the messed up adults who are raising messed up narcissistic kids.
Now for the Rich parents who work so much you are never home... You need to tell your kids that they shouldn't pick on another kid for being poor. Kids can't help that some parents can provide more than other parents. So remember when you get your five minutes of quality time in with your kids that the world isn't all about "stuff." Just because a kid has more stuff or live in a bigger house doesn't mean they are better. Besides - with one in five near Foreclosure and one in 8 in foodstamps I think the glass houses are pretty much gone.
Now if your kid is part of the partying crowd, the drug and alcohol group. If you don't think they are a suggestion is that you need to check the liquor cabinet when you go out to the club. You might tell them that peer pressure is not cool and just because they want to drink or smoke weed, you need to tell them that they shouldn't pressure other kids to do the same.
So if everyone would get behind me on this not being assholes to each other movement we might have a little bit better world. I promise I'll quit telling fat people to exercise if they will quit making our legislature trying to tax my Soda and regulate what I eat.
Believe me... nothing is worse than sitting at home at night with a sick feeling in your stomach. Knowing you have to go to school the next day. Trying desperately not to make eyecontact or sitting in class hearing the giggles and knowing its you they are making fun of. Or going to the locker room and being confronted. Having a whole class call you names. Its horrible. As an adult to be able to relate to why kids bring guns to school and to think to yourself the poor kids just got pushed to the point of breaking and didn't know how to deal with it or who to talk to. To know why the kids didn't think they could take just one more day because the teachers allowed the bullying and no one was there to help them.
Nothing is worse than being a parent and to have a child coming to you crying his eyes out over being bullied. Or is waiting for you to get home sitting on the porch because he got into a fight because words are powerful and other kids were calling him Gay so he threw a punch to show him he wasn't. So maybe, parents we should teach our kids not to be assholes. All of them. We all have biases we all have prejudice and I promise most of us aren't as politically correct as we want our neighbors to think we are.
America, we don't need new laws. We don't need more lawsuits. No amount of lawyers or lawsuits will stop this epidemic. Laws won't help. Humanity will help. Our country is so divided, so many of the adults are financially strapped that they are more worried about money than raising their kids. Laws aren't the answer. Parents are the answer. Less YouTube, less People of Walmart, less FailBlog. I know we are obsessed with watching peoples humiliation and failures, I'm just as guilty. Less Perez Hilton...less mean media stories. We are obsessed with watching peoples failures, not successes, because we are so envious of people who do things right.
So lets do things right. We may never be incredibly nice (we're old and jaded) but we can teach our kids to be nicer to one another, right?
Excuse my profanity but I just couldn't think of a better word...
And kids... It gets better. It really does.
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