Tag Archives: kids and bullies

Grown up Bullies

Posted 05 September 2009 | By | Categories: Behavior | 3 Comments

I’ve talked about child bullies before.  As bad as it is for kids to be bullies to other kids it is many magnitudes worse for an adult to be a bully to a child.  Now, we’ve all seen parents snap at their kids, and that’s annoying and we feel bad for the kid.  Grocery stores [...]

Kids and Bullies

Posted 03 August 2009 | By | Categories: Behavior | 15 Comments

”We find that bullies have a strong need to control others.  Their need to be dominant masks an underlying fear that they are not in control, and they mask the sense of inadequacy by being a bully.”  – Dr. Lochman, Duke University Medical School. We all know a bully or two.  We dealt with them [...]