Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[judge]

Delisha- I was going to ask you- what is the difference between a red sexlink and a cherry egger? From the picture they look the same to me

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

So, my 10 year old son has been coming home with bruises and cuts on his legs from a certain kid in his grade tackling him and pushing him down at recess. I figured it was just boys playing rough. He has told his dad that this kid is picking on him and my husband is making a huge deal out of it. Letting him stay home from baseball practice because the kid is on the team and things like that. This is what I told him "either tell a teacher or stand up for yourself and knock him down, punch him, do whatever it takes to get him to leave you alone. If they know they can pick on you now, they'll be doing it all through school." I doubt it had any effect on him. I'm going to end up having to call the principal eventually. I think kids picking on each other is normal and part of growing up. But if he's not going to tell and adult at the school and fears that if he defends himself physically that the other kid will tell, that's just stupid. I don't care if he gets in trouble. My advice: Knock that kid on his @ss if he touches you again.

 

[babylady4]

I would call the school AND tell my kid to punch the other kid out! Some picking on is normal, but this is bullying.

 

[jvls1942]

not knowing ALL the facts, I withdraw my comments.........

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I hate to say it, but I think this kid is just a big idiot and probably does this to all the boys. He has brothers and that's probably how they play. I know his parents so I will say something to them before getting the school involved. My son just doesn't like physical contact when he plays, he would prefer to play chess over football any day. And I know one time he told me that no one liked him in school. I went to lunch with him one day and all the kids were saying hi and trying to get his attention. He seriously blew most of them off. I asked him why, and he had various reasons why he didn't like each of them. I came to the conclusion that he was liked, he just didn't like the kids that wanted to be friends with him. He's one of the biggest kids in his class so there's no reason he should be getting pushed around. His only sibling is a 6 year old girl, so no help there.

I had a brother that you just didn't mess with. People still come up to me and ask what he's up to and "I remember that time he knocked so and so out at a party." I work with a retired teacher and he was telling me of a story about him. He was apparently not getting along with a kid in the class, my brother was told to leave and started out the door when the other kid said something rude. I guess my brother turned around walked up to him, took his trapper keeper and whacked him right upside the face making the kid fly out of his chair. Oh, High School memories . . . I put a road kill skunk in someone's car once that made me mad.

 

[Cindlady]

Hi!
I got pics of the one with the weird wings...


These are some of Storky's kids. See the cute little puff in the middle, looking at the camera?
She's dead

I had the screen slid back on the brooder to she could try and take the kids out and one of the big birds must of landed on it and knocked into the brooder. I found her with her head in the feed dish and the edge of the screen on her neck.

C U later...

 

[Stacykins]

The problem with fighting back is many schools have a zero tolerance policy. Both kids are suspended or expelled for fighting. Some kids (like me when I was in elementary and high school) followed rules to the letter. It is easy to say "beat the snot out of the other kid" but some kids don't want to get in trouble for fighting. Getting into trouble can cause more fear and anxiety than the bullying. My bullying in high school only stopped when I managed to get my tormenters expelled.

Schools are a place where a child should feel safe. Is it safe if a child is bullied? Absolutely not.

I will also tell you a small story about my uncle. He was a boy like your son. Not into physical sports, he'd rather pursue something intellectual than physical. This did not sit well with his father, my grandfather. My grandfather was aggressive that his son wouldn't be a wimpy pushover. Because my uncle did not like sports, this somehow made him inferior in my grandfather's eyes. My uncle wouldn't fight back against bullies, either. It just wasn't his nature. He grew up to become a brilliant veterinarian (he even worked with Dolly the cloned sheep) and teach at a major veterinary school. But he harbored a lifelong resentment to my grandfather for pushing him to be aggressive when it wasn't in his nature. Truly, as an adult my uncle was just like when he was a boy, a very warm, kind, and gentle man. He also resented his mother, because she sat back and did nothing while her husband did this to him.

The moral of my story? I guess not everyone out there is a fighter. Trying to make someone fight when it isn't their nature does more harm than good.

 

[Terri O]

Good evening! Man did it pour here today! The pasture is looking like several streams are running through it. THe horses are, OF COURSE, out standing in the rain even though they can go into 2 sheds. Dumb horses--maybe it feels good? Funny thing is that it wasnt raining at all at the grocery store 8 miles away and we drove right into the clouds...the kids loved it!

So I just took a break and put the kids up to bed...the girls (mine) are back, they forgot to stop at the mill and pick up the cat and horse food I ordered, now they are watching a movie and I am waiting for the rain to stop so I can go out and lock up; it is pouring again! Cripes, I guess I will have to wearing my hip waders out there.

I just heard that one of my daughters' classmate's sister was killed at a bad intersection West of our town. Her husband is still in a coma. I guess he was driving and they were T-boned at the intersection. Her parents and her sister were in the car behind them and watched the whole thing...how horrible for them! They were moving the sister to Madison for school.

AW---I guess I will watch a movie with the girls (and son that just made HIMSELF a huge bowl of ice cream with out offering to anyone else--sorry just like a guy) nighties to all--TerriO

 

[Kildare49]

What a great mom!!

Same advice I gave my kids....same advice I was given by my parents.

Of course it was the daughter that had me called into the school

 

[cuties]

Im so sorry cind! Its so hard when something like that happens...
Bbp, my son is only 3. At the time , he was 2. He was being bullied at my aunts house by a boy that was 3, and much bigger. I tried talking with my aunt... didnt get anywhere. Boys will be boys attitude... same with the father I told blake next time hes mean to you, punch him in the nose. Blake did. He earned that little boys respect, and doesn't take sh! T. And he sticks up for his big sis. When my aunt and the father "talked to me" I responded, boys will be boys.

Cs must be very busy wit the house! Hope all is well

Our baby has arrived! All seems well I will now try to post a pic. If it doesn't work, I will tomorrow. Im going to bed soon. Another 3 am 12 hours tomorrow :-(





Thankyoudelandzeke!