Are the Parents Innocent?

On Bullyingstatistics.org, one of the subjects is bullying by demographic. On that page, it lists categories of people who could be classified as bullies. I already identified one when I discussed teachers bullying their students, but another one caught my eye and I wanted to talk about it today. The subject is parents that bully their children.

 

The website classifies those parents as ones who are "overbearing, constantly belittling their children or seeking to be controlling, and enforcing rules with a heavy hand, may actually be crossing the line into bullying parent behavior." It also states that there are many parents who find disciplining their children to be a tough pill to swallow.

 

Now, we've all heard of using "tough love" and parents, especially utilize that term a lot when it comes to how they raise their children. My parents used that approach with me, but I was never belittled or abused mentally or physically by them. One interesting thing to note from the website is that if the child "learns how to treat people from the example of the parent that bullies them," then they are the ones who may become the bullies later on in their lifetime.

 

The best thing to do is to talk it out and make the parent understand that there is a problem when they belittle their kids and harass their kids. I can understand that there are flamboyant parents out there who have their own approach to handling their children, but there is a limit and one that I believe should not be met.

(abolishbullyingcampaign.org)