Why are kids bullying other kids?

Question

My son came home w/ a black eye yesterday

Answer 1

because these kids aren't being raised with good morals their parents are too busy working and not tending to their children.  I don't stand for bullying and I would ring my kids necks if I were to find out they were bullying someone.

Answer 2

Send him to karate lessons.  Not only will it teach him self-defense, it will increase his self-confidence.

Answer 3

That is not bullying.  That is assault.  If it happened to an adult, there would be a police report made.  

Please protect your son.

Answer 4

The same reason the sweet little girl at the park is telling the birds in the tree to shut up or she will slap them on the mouth... kids only know what they see. They learn from what their parents do.

Answer 5

Unfortunately, most kids take after their parents. . .they see their mommy or daddy doing something and they mimic it, like a parrot. They learn these bad habits and behaviors from their parents.

Answer 6

People at my sisters school call her names because she wears glasses and says her mom is g*y(My sister is 7). I told my sister to tell them to spell g*y! Half of the kids at her school are very ignorant and they curse, fight and steal., They bring their parents cellphones and car keys to school and steal money from their parents...Society has gotten bad and people are letting their kids get out of control. I think parents need to  cut their childrens TELEVISION time because most of these kids watch too much tv and are picking up bad habits and bad language from it...EVEN THE CARTOONS like spongebob

Answer 7

Because it's part of being a kid.  Been  going on since humanity first stepped onto the earth.

Answer 8

Well, honestly, and I don't know your kid, many kids that are bullied are different somehow - I worked in an elementary school for several years and we took buly-proofing workshops designed to stop teen violence against schoolmates before it gets out of hand (I worked in Littleton Colorado shortly after Columbine, so it was a hot topic).

We were told that FIRST of all, we needed to help the kids who were being bullied by helping them fit in better - maybe a kid on the playground picks his nose all the time, or stinks, or can't communicate well and gets angry a lot and then ends up getting in fights cause he made the other kids mad because he just couldn't communicate well....

Whatever it is, try to look at your son through someone else's eyes and see if he could work on some of his social skills.

Second of all, the bullys won't stop until they are stopped by someone else - either a teacher or principal, or another kid who beats them up back.  Honestly, and they don't advocate this at school and your kid will probably get in trouble for it, but the best thing your kid can do at this point is to learn how to hit and kick the #### out of the leader of the group.  They won't mess with him anymore and it will stop here - otherwise it could follow him into high school - and it gets worse there.

My last suggestion is to enrol him in martial arts.  This will teach him discipline, teach him not to back down from others who attack him, and teach him to be self confident - a bully will never pick on someone who is self confident - it's too intimidating.  They only pick on kids who are weaker and scared.  Martial arts is not going to get him started fighting - that's not what it's about, but it will help him in confrontations with other kids and if he has to, he will know how to defend himself.

Good luck - I know its frustrating - we had a cousin who was terribly tormented all through school and it was only in college that he finally made friends.  But I CAN tell you that his parents didn't do him any favors by letting him behave in a way that other kids could pick on him - he wore the same shirt to school everyday cause he loved it, he never went out to play, he said things that were offensive, he ate with his mouth open, he didn't comb his hair - and they never helped him change this..... I know they wanted him to be himself, but at the same time, he was being labled a geek and being picked on and eventually beat up in high school every day.

Try to get him help now so it stops at this age - the martial arts would really help with that.

Answer 9

Thats tooooo much , but you should read more in the child hood developments and what are some of the causes. Its preety interesting; makesure you go forth with a parent meeting conference cuz tahts just wrong. Good luck, hope ur son feels betta :0(