Why do people think that kids who are being bullied should just fight back?

I'm not a parent, but I have been bullied before and I agree with you. The people who bullied me always hung around groups and some of them carried knives and guns. Sometimes fighting back really isn't an option unless you're tired of living or something like that. I'm sorry about your son and I hope he'll make a full recovery. The fact that it takes a group of older boys to bully a little kid like that is pathetic. They're nothing but cowards.

I really do not feel there is an answer, as of yet, to bullies. Principals, teachers, parents and other adults are generally ineffective to a bully. Cops will normally do nothing if the offender is a minor. We really are left with our hands tied. Walking away is also useless. I think the answer lies in how a bullied child carries themselves. Bullies pick on the weak. If parents teach their children to carry themselves in a way that is "no nonsense and I will not stand for this", bullies would have no power. After all, I have never seen an assertive person get bullied. Bullies bully because they can. When we teach and groom our children to take that power away from a bully life is much better. All this anti bullying campaigning will do nothing. Bullies have always been here and will always be here. The problem lies with a bullies parent, because this is a learned behavior. "Normal" kids do not bully. I teach my kids to stand up for what is right, if they or another is bullied. But I am also anti violence. With that said, as I have my kids in a lions den everyday, they have the skills and knowledge to defend and protect themselves. You cannot send a weak, scrawny kid to fight a battle he cannot possibly win.

I taught my daughter to fight when she was a child and a bully moved into the neighborhood. Once she stood up to him, he left her alone, and nobody got hurt.

Unfortunately, kids who bully are often not stopped by adult intervention, alone. They are just careful to do it when there are no adults around, unless the victim fights back.

But obviously a group of armed kids would fall into a different category and should be dealt with by authorities.

Back in the day kids didnt fight in groups and they didnt use weapons-so it worked. If you stood up to the bully he usually left you alone. Now that isnt the case. Im sorry about your son that is horrible!

Because when you're getting your *** handed to you by a group of kids you shouldn't lay there and take it, you should ATTEMPT to get away and if you can't then you need to make sure you defend yourself as best as possible.

Yes, the police should definately be involved but if you're in the middle of a beating don't let them own you, try to get away and fight back.

- I think you would help " bulled " kids all over the world

- if you would do ONE thing

- for any problem there should be a solution but it seems schools take their time on this one

- the ONE thing you should do is to SUE the SCHOOL

- if there is a solution to bullying then if you sue the school is will motivate

people in authority to find it

Didnt you already ask this question? Like an hour ago? And then deleted the question becauase you werent getting the answers that you wanted? Lol.

I totally agree with you. If I had children I'd tell them to stand up to the bullies, not be one

Call Chuck Norris! Trust me, those horrible boys will learn their lesson!

I don't want my kid to grow up and be a p***y so I will tell him to fight back... My parents taught me that and my brother and we turned out good.