There have always been bullies and always will be. Often the bully is imitating behavior he or she has seen in the home. A child was fighting with another one on my son’s Yeshivah bus on the way home. My son saw the little kid being bullied, so he stepped in between them to try to stop the fighting (the bus driver was either oblivious or concentrating on the road – he should have stopped the bus and refused to drive until they were under control). The bully grabbed my son’s glasses off his face, broke them and cut my son near his eye, in the bargain. When I saw my son, I called the parents immediately to inform them of what their son had done. the mom’s response – “Next time teach your son to mind his own business.” She neither offered to pay for the replacement glasses, nor even expressed regret at her son’s outrageous behavior. Had my son done the same thing, not only would I have made him go over to BOTH boys and apologize, but his allowance would have been paying for the glasses for the next several months or longer. What can you expect from kids,w hen the parents have such an attitude?
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