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I
was once bullied by a jerk who wanted to show off in front of
his friends . He took a chair from me during school when I was
sitting down and I fell on the floor. I said to my friends, "That
guy's an idiot" and he heard me. He started to hit and kick
me and then walked away. I didn't hit him back because he was
bigger and older than me.
The book Taking
the Bully by the Horns explains why bullies bully. Now I understand
that he bothered me because he felt really small inside and I
was an easy target because I was new in the school. People used
to make fun of him because of his grades and he probably felt
bad about himself and decided to take it out on other people.
A bully picks on somebody so that
he can take his anger about feeling bad about himself out on somebody
else. He picks somebody smaller than him without too many friends.
Somebody he thinks won't tell anybody.
I liked this book because it explains
the bully cycle: When somebody gets bullied, after a while he
tries to act tough and then even he begins to bully others when
he is feeling very small inside and lacks respect for himself.
It also teaches you how to take care
of bullies. You confront him with the problem and then he'll understand
that he's doing something wrong and try to reform. If he doesn't,
just ignore him.
In my class, kids are still bullying
other kids but I'm not getting bullied because they know that
it will not do them any good to bother me. If I see somebody bullying
I try to stop him. When a big person is pushing a little person
in line to go to the water fountain, I tell him to stop, for example.
It also tells how to know if you're
a victim or not. If you feel bad and you don't know why, if you
have dreams that you're a Ninja fighter , if you dream of revenge,
if you avoid passing people's houses, then you're a victim.
You've got to confront the bully.
If he ignores your confrontation
and continues to bully you, then you've got to get help from an
adult.
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