Bullies at school and camp can’t get a pass because ‘they’re just kids.’ Parents need to act – By Amy Klein, author of “The Trying Game: Get Through Fertility Treatment and Get Pregnant Without Losing Your Mind” (NBC News) / Aug 29 2021
Excuses like ‘boys will be boys’ are merely justifications used to defend playground bullies and, later, male aggression.
It’s happening again. There’s another bully in my daughter’s camp.
“He made fun of my glasses and called me a baby,” reported my 6-year-old daughter, indeed my baby and only child, but not herself a baby.
It was only the third day at her new camp, but I wasn’t going to let it go on any longer. I had already put up with a bully in her previous session at a different camp.
The camp would not kick him out, saying, “He’s just a kid!” Of course he’s just a kid — otherwise why would he be at camp?
I’m comfortable calling him that because he was twice the size of the other kids and was making their days miserable by tripping, pinching and even dunking them in the pool. Yet it took us parents half the session to get him removed from their group.
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