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Relationship Topics
When Your Child Is Bullied
One Scared Boy
Evan was afraid to go to school. He knew Nick would be waiting. Although Evan was about twice Nick’s size, his gentle heart was no match for Nick’s constant harassing. Nick loved to jump on Evan when he wasn’t looking. He enjoyed knocking Evan’s books out of his hands. And Nick seemed to get a special thrill when his name-calling would make Evan tear up.
“You’re a big kid,” the school counselor told Evan. “Don’t be afraid of Nick.” But Evan was scared.
“My dad’s got a gun,” Nick whispered to Evan one day as he left school.
Yes … Evan was very scared.
With school shootings and gang activity seemingly always in the media, the subject of bullying sometimes gets overlooked. But if a bully is harassing your child, the topic is anything but insignificant to you or him. Television and movies have long played — often humorously — on the bullying experiences that many of us faced growing up. But we know that this topic is anything but humorous.
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