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| Tue, 02-28-2012 - 12:47pm |
As a parent, do you want to know if your child is being mean to another child?
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Oh that stinks. Big time.
I think as a parent it's always hard to hear what your kid did wrong, whether it's as simple as missed an assignment or as bad as breaking the law. However, I'd definitely want to know so I could stop it from continuing. I'd probably be mildly defensive (understandably - you're telling me something bad about my kid) but also horrified that X is going on.
My kiddo is special needs so I'm often told what he's doing wrong, but I'm the type who goes on to try to fix it/stop it.
When things like school shootings happen, we wonder what kind of parents the school shooter had, we say "he must have been mentally unstable" and things like that. But, often times, too little is said about the bullying that might have taken place against these kids.
Now, that said, do I want to tell the other parent? Unless I know them really well, probably not. I might help brainstorm some ways to solve the problem, encourage the child to go to the teacher and maybe ask to not be put in that group again or that stuff.
I suspect, that what you heard about on for the science fair will be repeated on the trip.
I think a lot of parents would want to know, but many wouldn't believe it. Usually the type of kid who bullies has a parent who bullies, or is in some way really insensitive. This is the case with every bully I've known.
One good thing about chaperoning a field trip together is that you will get to seehow