from MASSACHUSETTS:
We ALL should make this horrible habit STOP now. Teach your ignorant children that bullying has NO purpose. Bullying does start at home. People think this is an old "cliche". Thats bull. If you teach your children well, then they will not bully. It is as easy as that. Teach your children to be compassionate to others. Everyone has a "story" and some of these stories are not good. Lots of these kids live in hell all day long. They don't know what to do, who to talk to, what to wear, they are lost. It's not their fault that no one cares for them or about them. I see it all the time. , right in your neighborhood, sometimes in the most unobvious households. Start at home. Teach you star baseball player and your beautiful cheerleader to help those students that aren't as lucky as them. And maybe you should start as a parent to get involved. It isn't very hard. Just sit at the dining room table and talk about it. Tell them stories. Bully's aren't all 'BAD "people. They just haven't been taught right.
Try this, take a few minutes out of your day tomorrow (and every day) and help someone. Do something nice. I do it everyday, dozens of times. Help an elderly person, say hello to the kid with his pants down his butt and his ball cap on sideways. "nice hat, you like the Mets?" You might be the only adult that speaks to him that day! Hold the door for someone. Ask the young lady at the counter at Honey Farms with the pink and green hair if she is having a good day, "that's great" should be your response or at least something nice. Help the elderly couple put their groceries into their car. And when they say thank you, say no thank you. I promise they will go home and tell everyone that they see about what you did for them. Even their grandchildren. It's the trickle down affect.
I'll leave you with this. Yesterday I was driving down Burncoat street and I noticed two older boys, obviously, giving a younger boy with a colored backpack, a hard time. One of the kids pushed the smaller boy off of the curb and he fell into the gutter. I pulled over right next to them. Casually got out of my truck and walked around to the young boy in the road. He was trying to hide his tears but wasn't doing very well at it. I helped him up and turned to the boys and asked if there was a problem. One of the kids said, "what's it to you". I said "excuse me". The 3rd kid, much bigger then the other 2 said, "this is none of your business." And I said' "well that's where you are mistaken". You see this is your lucky day. "What does that mean was the response"? I said "you are very lucky that it was me that stopped today and not someone else". We had a 5 minute conversation (if you want to call it that). I asked the young boy if he was ok . He said he was fine. I told him to go along and have a better day. He actually said thank you and walked across the street to some other kids that I think he knew. I turned to the the two bigger boys and said. "I hope we never meet again under these circumstances, I hope you have a better day".
I walked to my truck and got into the drivers seat. There was a knock on my passenger window. I rolled it down and the bigger of the 2 boys was standing there. "He said to me, "your son is a Marine"? I said "yes he is, you can read". (my bumper sticker says, "my son is a United States Marine") " 'I have though
t about being a Marine". "That's a good thing. What do your parents think of it"? They don't care what I do." I wasn't surprised. "How are your grades?" "Not great". "well you need to graduate from High school to be a Marine. And you can't treat other people the way you were treating that young boy" Long story short, we talked for about for about 2 Minutes. He shook my hand and said "thank you". Then the most amazing thing happened. He jumped out of my truck, ran across the sheet and ran up to where the group of kids were walking. I followed them very slowly and I watched. This kid held his hand out and shook hands with the young boy. I drove by and blew my horn. Now I don't know if I helped at all but I can only hope . We can all make a difference. Lets teach our children about bullying. I hope you all have a Wonderful Thanksgiving, and I hope you realize how lucky you are. Semper Fi.
-Bob Tefft
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