Bullying is NO Laughing Matter!

I had the ‘inspiration’ to create a video about bullying, for my www.youtube.com/helenoflafolot channel, the past couple days. I had been stalling. I want to focus the video on my personal experience with bullying; what happened in the life of one of my bullies (which allowed me to see her differently); and direct it to those being bullied.

Well, I just came from an unsettling grocery shopping experience.

I was walking towards the back of the store’s frozen foods section. Walking towards me was an adult male (Dad? Father?) PURPOSELY KICKING the backs of the shoes of ?? his 8 year old – possibly – daughter. He kept looking down to MAKE SURE HE PURPOSELY KEPT KICKING the backs of her shoes.

They were about 8 feet away from me, walking towards me. I tend to talk, joke, interract with people when I am out; but I was at a loss for words!

I watched the young girl’s face. It was neutral, no response. Was she feeling embarrassed, or used to being treated like this? She wasn’t smiling, wasn’t laughing. She was just dutifully walking in front of this man (father? dad?) PURPOSELY making it difficult for her to walk!

I think I just stopped, looked, and my face must have had a puzzled, WHAT THE HECK IS THIS MAN DOING look on it.

He THEN STOPPED, and said as they passed: ‘YOU DIDN’T SEE THAT’.

I ‘WANTED’ to say: WHO, is the ADULT in this instance!?

We wonder WHERE children learn BULLYING?
We wonder WHY children, and ADULTS get involved in bullying.

Bullying is no laughing matter. What has this man taught this young girl?

Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT.COM
…at a loss for words, in a way. Perhaps I was being PROMPTED to MAKE THE VIDEO I had been stalling to make… MESSAGE RECEIVED!

I developed a talked called: 'CAREFUL, THE CHILDREN ARE LISTENING!' ... yes, they are! and watching! and LEARNING from OUR actions.  BE WARE! BE CAREFUL! What are YOU teaching the children?