Cheers lads.. Nephew only at nursery and they're all discovering you can push and whack each other one wee lad more than the others..nothing serious but just got me thinking as Sis and Bro-in-law are very anti violence which is commendable obviously but my instinct in a few years would have been option B. I was a skinny but hot tempered kid at school..moved a lot to begin with so obvious target for the bully..always found a punch in the face to the ring leader whether you got a kicking or not stopped it fairly quickly.
The ref should never get another international match. It was Scandalous how much favoritism was shown Wales by allowing a full warm up for prop and ignoring 5/6 clear pen tries and not yellowing Wales far earlier.
Got the new Master of Orion game. Along with XCOM, Civilization, and Master of Magic, the original is one of 4 games I wasted too many of my teen years playing. Excellent reboot of the MOO series. Now someone needs to reboot MOM and all the best games from my teenage life will be modernized.
hmmmm mater of magic and might and magic are excellent. civilization is great. I don't think i ever played master of orion though. edit: is this MMPG
yeah the one beating is better than months of torment. best to establish pecking order quick and get mid pack asap. If anyon thinks humanity is all that separated from chimps in terms of all trying to be the alpha they are sadly mistaken... and probably a vegan n all.
true but thus far we've only got as far as brexit and trump. Its not a lot of progress for a million years of evolution. In light of this i say get the wee lad to smash a few guys to establish his alpha male status.
Can't argue with that. When it comes to kids it's a tricky one. You want them to be able to defend themselves but not to instigate violence, or to seek it out, imo. It's all down to the individual child and their circumstances.
yeah. ithink teaching them a good forearm smash is no harm anyway. its then up to the teachers to ensure they get told on when they use it wrongly. thats the porblem IMO teachers don't tell on the kids cos the leftie parents then complain. I'd be delighted if my lad slapped some kid stealing his crayons and then i had to discipline him. learning experience like.
The fighting back approach works if your child is being hit or pushed but not if the bullying is psychological. In my experience neither of my lads were physically bullied but the eldest was psychologically bullied from a young age by one kid. Things like being left out of a game, constantly hiding his personal belongings or throwing them away, refusing to share with him and only him. My lad didn't understand it as he got on well with everyone. I told him to ignore this kid and not even try to play with him. He didn't want to ignore him and kept saying 'but he's my friend, he might be alright with me today'. I knew the other kids behaviour wouldn't alter but my lad kept hoping it would. I kept telling him to ignore him completely and eventually he got the message and started ignoring him. My lad was the most popular kid in his class and I think that's why he didn't understand this one person being mean to him. As the years went on my lad remained popular and this other kid got lonelier and lonelier, I'm not sure what was going through his mind with the psychological bullying but it didn't work out for him. Jealousy maybe, I don't know and I'm not even sure what the lesson to be learned is other than try and get the message as soon as you can and walk away. You can't change anyone else's behaviour only your own.
true. jealously is terrible isn't it. the thing is in a round about way... your lad could be accused of bullying by ignoring him. its funny what starts stuff off isn't it. bit of insecurity or jealousy etc. deffo can only look after yourself but i'd hope still protect the younger lads and smaller lads n all is the mark of a good kid.
