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."
