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How do you deal w/ bully's?
When I was a lad dealing with bullies was considered part of growing up. Adults figured that kids needed to "toughen up" if they were going to be successful in life so learning to deal with schoolyard ruffians was considered good practice for dealing with difficult individuals later. Everyone thought it was no big deal.
Now we know that bullying is a big deal. Some kids are traumatized for life and some have been driven to suicide.
Bullies get their power by emotionally hurting other people. The less you respond to their taunts the less power they have over you. Of course this is easier said than done but remember that bullies can not make you feel worse about yourself without your permission.
Bullies themselves are often pathetic individuals who have a rotten home life or have been bullied by others and their way of dealing with this is to try to put other people down to feel better about themselves. They try to single out people they see as weak so the stronger and more confident you are the less of a target you will be.
When possible avoid bullies. When you can't do that try to ignore them. When that isn't possible ask them to stop and if they don't than get help from adults.
well there are several "schools of thought" on that subject.
back in the day- you would step up to the bully and either face them down, knock their block off, or get your "block" knocked off. either way you were standing your ground and facing the bully instead of running away.
NOW DAYS- you may be arrested for fighting, for assault, etc. which may lead to jail time- expulsion from school, probation- so it is a whole new ballgame now. the best thing to do is to bring it too the attention of a teacher at school- or a trusted adult- uncles, aunts, parents- etc. so that the situation is known and can be taken care of.
Bully peeps at school are people that lacks of attention and true friends. so if you ignore them, it means you never level your self to how low their levels are.. stay good and stay away from them.. if they get on your way, report them, and not do ANY FIGHT with narrow-minded people like them.. it goes to show what they know of doin, and that's the only thing they're good at...
Here is a link to a really good teen site on dealing with bullies:
http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/problems/bullies.html
