Adult bullying is not a place I've gone to very often-directly anyway. I usually leave that to Asher Adelman over at eBoss Watch. He's good at looking at bullying in the work place. However, this story from a couple of days ago got me thinking. As tragic as that story was and is, you can't help but think about the things children are doing these days.
My conclusion on the subject of bullying is; adult bullying creates child bullying.
Modeling over a consistent period of time is what I'm pointing to. The influence that comes from our modeling is a guide book for our children. Our children learn and take their cues from our modeling. Since childhood is a significant period of development we are not surprised by this reality. No prescription for perfection here, but if we adults want to seriously impact bullying in our children, then we need to stop bullying too. We adults do the same shit as our children and we know better.
Scary when you think about what our modeling has done to our children.
Time to turn around…
Thanks for connecting and for the comments. There are so many issues with our children that could be solved, if we as adults started looking in the mirror.
Agreed. Children look up to adults as role models – eliminate the adult bullies and we reduce the creation of child bullies.