Special Features & Editorials - Girls Who Bully
Quotes From Parents
"One thing is clear, the kids do not have
a single thing to do with it."
"Parents do not
realize that their children can be very different people at school than
they are at home with mom and dad. Where does this behavior come
from?... in this case I believe it to be over indulgence on the part of
the parents, and over stepping their bounds when situations of failure
arise in their daughter's life or in matters of needed discipline from
community members. They are not protecting their daughter as I know they
believe they are doing. Her parents are teaching her that she can
railroad her way through life without consequence, manipulating her way
through life, and without thought of how her actions hurt others."
"The parallel
between what the girls are doing and what the parents are doing is
strikingly similar:"
"I watched the
movie, "It's a Girl's World" the other night on CBC Television. The part
that interested me was when the parents were sitting around the table
trying to figure out why this happens. The one mother made the
suggestion that it may have something to do with her. The immediate
reaction of the group was to silence this line of thought. It seems that
the reason bullying continues is that few people will or do take
responsibility."
"There is no reason
or excuse for why you were bullied or why any of us are bullied. The
bullies themselves don't know why they do it. They deflect their
deficiencies on others and force others to feel pain that they don't
want to own up to. They experience their pain vicariously through the
person they hurt."
"Some of the
parents are really defensive. They seem to think that any kind of
criticism of their daughter is a personal affront. It only made things
worse trying to talk to them."
