I was bullied all the time as a kid and it wasn't the end of the world. I don't know every time I hear some one talking like being bullied is the worst thing that could happen to you all I can think about is how many times I was beat up as a kid and had my favorite toys stolen and yet it didn't cause any long term problems. In fact now that I am an adult I am friends with some of the kids who bullied me when I was a kid.
When there are so many other crimes running out of control in this country I have to wonder why the government is spending so much money on tv ads to stop bullying. Oh and I don't buy that a kid who is bullied will end up shooting up a school or something some day, as I said I was bullied and that idea never once crossed my mind.
I don't know it just seems to me that when I was a kid part of growing up was learning how to solve problems on your own and I learned to avoid the bullies or stand up to them. It just seems to me like we are training kids to play the victim card their whole lives and when we flood the Tv with all the ads where we act like your life is over if you get bullied once we are just making the problem worse since we are sending the message to kids that if you get called names or anything like that then you may as well kill yourself because you have nothing to live for. I don't know it just seems wrong to tell kids to let what others say about them have so much power in their lives. People called me names and mocked me all of my life and you know what I learned on my own? To be my own person and not care what they think and do well in school. Because of that I did better in school then the other kids I grew up with and I have never touched a drink or done drugs while most of the kids I grew up with who did care either became teen parents or got a drinking or drug problem they had to deal with. I don't think I would have learned to not care what people said about me if I hadn't been picked on as a kid.
Am I saying bullying is good? No. What I am saying is that you can respond to it in a positive way and I think we should be teaching kids how to do that instead of trying to stamp out bullying which I don't see how that can be done without setting up a police state where we send grade school kids to prison and what everything everyone does 24/7. teach kids not to care what some idiot says about that, that is the much better option if you ask me.