5th grade bully
When I was in the 4th and 5th grade a girl named Cathy decided to target me with bullying. Every recess and PE class she would shove me around and laid hands on me. She did everything she could to disrupt anything I tried to do whenever she could. It went on for one and a half School years.
One day I was playing Foursquare with three other wildly ( Read more... )
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I posted this to FB which prompted a reply. Here is my response to that reply.
No violence is healthy, whether it's on ourselves or others. That is an interesting thought. I would love to see a study of which kinds of abuse lead to the different responses .I had to go away and think on this. Here are my thoughts. Bullying does not ever come from a place of confidence. The strong self-worth kids will resent, stand up to, or defy their abusers. The ones that are not so confident will find others that they perceive to be easy prey to bully. They seek to what little power they feel over someone with even less power.I wonder if there is a pattern if the abuse is strictly verbal, a caregiver that yells and says hurtful things vs. physical abusers that lay hands on their victims.According to science early brain development is hindered by chronic Cortisol overproduction. Any stress causes a cortisol spike. Some kids are in situations where the Cortisol production never stops because there is a constant abuse or fear of abuse with no time to ( ... )
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