[rubymoo]

I don't understand why people bully, kids are taught from a very early age not to bully, they have anti bullying week at school, and it's drilled into them to be nice and to report bullying, my experience with my children is that this is often adhered to in primary school but when they go to secondary school it all kicks off, it's about being popular, it's about being a leader, it's about power, my daughter has a diagnosis of autism and i encourage her to keep a book of children being bullied, both my girls are passionate about anti bullying and i'm proud to say that they always stand up to bullying, i myself on several occasions have rang school to report bullying (of other children because my daughter isn't taken seriously), my friends daughter is going through it at the moment in her friendship group, she's the one who isn't popular so she is the one who frequently is targeted by the girls in her own group, girls that she's grown up with, girls who have been to her parties had over night sleepovers and enjoyed girl guide outings with, and when these girls turn on someone else, she just sands by and watches.....because she's afraid, she's possibly just thankful it's not her that's being picked on.......and bullying goes on in the grown up world too.....i've experienced it......

How should we deal with it....imo....name and shame, that'll stop them, because no-one wants to be called a bully.