My son is in 7th grade and he is just letting me know that there is a kid picking on him everyday. I know kids will be kids I do have 3 boys but my son came home today and told me that this kid threw him against the gym lockers today for the fun of it. My son says telling on the kid only makes it worse. Should I go to the authorities ? It seems to me this kid is getting full pleasure out of picking on my son. The last thing he did before this incident was threw a chunk of apple that hit my son in the face. What is it gonna take to get this kid off my sons back and let my son have one peaceful day at school without waiting for this kid to get him. Please anyone with suggestions? Thanks Monica2

worthbeads

Tell the bully's parents about this.

J_9

Have YOU gone to the school and discussed this with the principal?

Fr_Chuck

discuss it with both the school officials and the schools police resourse officer

Punkergurl13

hey! from my own experience? tell your son to try to ignore him. if this does NOT work, then get permission for him to bring a "recorder" to school. chances are you asking the principle this will disturb him just a wee-bit and he might actually put his foot down!!!!

(my mom at on time in my life actually did this and it worked.

mwilliams15

You should definitely go to the school and talk to them about it. Try not to make a HUGE deal out of it, i know that this kid needs to put a stop to it and take it serious, but the last thing you want to do is make the situation worse. I think if your son ignores it and maybe even laughs it off, it might help a little bit. I realize this is a really tough situation, and middle school kids can definitely be mean. Someone needs to talk to the kid about being more mature and why doing what he is doing to your son is wrong. Maybe you should suggest that maybe a counselor talk to them both about it to get down to the underlying issue. I hope an end can be put to this for you and your sons sake. I see you posted this about a week ago, so i hope its taken care of by now .. good luck!

inthebox

I agree with speaking with parent[s] school officials etc...

but, as one who was picked on in grade school way back in the 70s, your son #1 needs to walk away #2 show no emotional reaction #3 if he has no other choice, he should defend himself.

Part of the bully's pleasure is getting a reaction from their victims. There will always be those that don't fight back - the bully knows this. Even if the odds are not in your son's favor the fact that he will stand up for himself, may be enough of a deterrent for the bully to go elsewhere.

For me, bullying never stopped, even when the authorities were informed, until I stood up to the bullys, and more often than not, I got my butt kicked.
But the bulllying did stop.

I hope for the best for your son.



Grace and Peace

curios99

tell your son to grow a backbone a stand up for him self and put the bully in his place

xxhopingtearsxx

What I think you should do is take your son to a different school, or secretly tell that child's parents. Then the parents can just make up a lie that the principal caught him or another student told on him or that security cameras caught it. My school has security cameras so whatever happens, theres always the security cameras to catch someone.

mongoose102860

Get your son into martial arts or at least some kind of self defence. I went through the same thing. Some times it takes fire to fight fire unfortunetly.