My Bully
Bobby was bigger and more aggressive than most kids his age. Bobby's aggression made me and a lot of other kids slink around school and the neighbourhood. He was the toughest and meanest kid in my school and he bullied everyone.
Bobby had a reputation for beating up kids for just about any reason he needed. It seemed he would beat kids up for just looking at them.
One day I heard a ruckus in the schoolyard and all the kids were running to the sound. There was Bobby punching my best friend Jeff. My stomach churned and tossed, I thought I was going to be sick. One of Bobby's henchmen saw me and grabbed and punched me. All I could do was watch my best friend cry and take punches. I was trembling with fear and my side was stinging from the punch. Bobby looked up at me and said, "You want some of this!"
I felt I had no choices at all. Run and be labeled a coward and suffer the emotional pain or stay and get beaten up to suffer the physical pain. These were the only choices I was aware of at the time as I, like most kids, had no skills for coping with conflict. I stayed and took my punishment from bobby without saying a word.
I am now here more than twenty-five years later to tell you that you have other choices and the Bully Proof program teaches you other options.
"The answer to the bullying problem is to make bullying socially unacceptable at any age and teaching kids to stand up and speak out against it."
