One of the many concerns of parents is that other kids will bully their children. But recent reports suggest that parents should also worry about parents bullying kids.
True stories about a father who beat up a kid for bullying his son, a mother who did not allow a girl to seat beside her child and her friends in the school bus, a mother who gave birthday invitations to everyone in the class except a few to humiliate them, and a mother who schemed to prevent a girl from joining a camp cabin confirm the horrifying truth about bullying parents.
"We had moved to a new town and chose a camp for her, not knowing that three or four other girls from the school would also be attending," Jamie Kanner, a mother of four in Chicago told ABC News. "One of the moms of those girls, who had been attending the camp for years, called the camp director that she was friendly with and requested my daughter not be allowed in the cabin with the popular girls."
Lisa Barr, founder of the "GIRLilla Warfare: A Mom's Guide to Surviving the Suburban Jungle", explains that one of the main motivations for many mothers why they bully other children is insecurity, "There's this insecurity that they were not the 'it' girl, and 'I will make sure my kid doesn't have that experience."
Bullying can be done in a variety of ways. They can cause great harm to a child's physical, mental, and emotional well-being. It is the responsibility of adults to protect children against all forms of bullying from people of all ages. Parents can help fight against bullying parents by teaching their kids to remain calm when bullied and to report every incidence of bullying to them and to the school authorities.
