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		<title>By: Christian</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Perfect timing... I was searching articles on bullying and I found this.
I&#039;m already in college and i&#039;m still getting bullied. &quot;Stil&quot; cause I have since elementary school. Bullies should just die! These assholes just can&#039;t seem to see how mortifying it feels to be picked on.

Actually there are only a few of them, but when they pick on someone everyone else seems to spinelessly support them! Why? Cause if they&#039;re on his side they won&#039;t get picked on. If I were to stand up to them, it just gets worse, would become the guy who snapped, like my best buddy whom they picked on.

If I were just bigger I would gladly take suspension from school just to pummel these guys half-dead, no, even just to make them cry! They keep calling names and inventing absurd stories about me. I do not know what the hell is so enjoyable with what they do that they do it weeks, even months later.

I&#039;m not at the bottom of the &quot;foodchain&quot; but I definitely know how it feels to be bullied and I try my hardest to not bully others, even just make them feel bad (depending on who that other is). I want to stop the bullying but I can only change myself. I don&#039;t hang with them( bullies ) cause they act so cool and superior i&#039;d love to see them stumble.

What&#039;s more infuriating are the many spineless people who suck up to these bullies. When these guys are bullied I refrain from bullying also ( I can&#039;t really find the courage to stop the bullies...they&#039;ll just turn on you, including the one being bullied ). These spineless assholes just take the insult and the shame and stil, stil follow these demonic bullies like dogs. Perhaps they are not aware but that just make the bullies more stronger.

Know what? I plan on getting back on all these assholes... I&#039;ll seek their children and massacre thier families that they also may think a little more of me! They must think of the people they bully as objects to just take their cruelty and they can just walk away. Hell no! they make life at school so uninviting. They make me think of them everyday. I always think how should I handle him today. What do I do when..., what should I do if.... F!@# them. They took away my peace!

...Maybe I&#039;m overreacting right now but that is how I feel right now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perfect timing&#8230; I was searching articles on bullying and I found this.<br />
I&#8217;m already in college and i&#8217;m still getting bullied. &#8220;Stil&#8221; cause I have since elementary school. Bullies should just die! These assholes just can&#8217;t seem to see how mortifying it feels to be picked on.</p>
<p>Actually there are only a few of them, but when they pick on someone everyone else seems to spinelessly support them! Why? Cause if they&#8217;re on his side they won&#8217;t get picked on. If I were to stand up to them, it just gets worse, would become the guy who snapped, like my best buddy whom they picked on.</p>
<p>If I were just bigger I would gladly take suspension from school just to pummel these guys half-dead, no, even just to make them cry! They keep calling names and inventing absurd stories about me. I do not know what the hell is so enjoyable with what they do that they do it weeks, even months later.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not at the bottom of the &#8220;foodchain&#8221; but I definitely know how it feels to be bullied and I try my hardest to not bully others, even just make them feel bad (depending on who that other is). I want to stop the bullying but I can only change myself. I don&#8217;t hang with them( bullies ) cause they act so cool and superior i&#8217;d love to see them stumble.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s more infuriating are the many spineless people who suck up to these bullies. When these guys are bullied I refrain from bullying also ( I can&#8217;t really find the courage to stop the bullies&#8230;they&#8217;ll just turn on you, including the one being bullied ). These spineless assholes just take the insult and the shame and stil, stil follow these demonic bullies like dogs. Perhaps they are not aware but that just make the bullies more stronger.</p>
<p>Know what? I plan on getting back on all these assholes&#8230; I&#8217;ll seek their children and massacre thier families that they also may think a little more of me! They must think of the people they bully as objects to just take their cruelty and they can just walk away. Hell no! they make life at school so uninviting. They make me think of them everyday. I always think how should I handle him today. What do I do when&#8230;, what should I do if&#8230;. F!@# them. They took away my peace!</p>
<p>&#8230;Maybe I&#8217;m overreacting right now but that is how I feel right now.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent blog. I was there too -- not at this particular one, but 25 years ago when I was 15 years old growing up in Michigan. I was bullied from the time I was in elementary school right on up into high school. And NOBODY would help--not the parents, and certainly not the teachers. (And for goodness sakes, some of the teachers in elementary school even seemed afraid of the bullies themselves. And to add to that, my dad worked at my school, and still nothing was done.)

As adults it&#039;s easy to laugh off the taunts of somebody... or just leave. But children don&#039;t have either luxury. As a child, the taunts *hurt* but my parents didn&#039;t understand. &quot;So what if they said that to you,&quot; and &quot;just ignore them,&quot; my parents would say. As if that would actually help a 10 year old. And I certainly couldn&#039;t leave; I was forced to sit in the same classroom as these people day by day.

Now grown, my sister was faced with the same problem with her daughter being bullied; she took action and began home-schooling her daughter. I&#039;m not sure that&#039;s the answer either, but at least it got her away from the trouble.

But what I don&#039;t understand is WHERE are the parents of the bullies? Do they honestly not care that their kids are doing this? My boy is in kindergarten and he&#039;s a very nice boy, but once he picked on another kid. I got word of that and I sat him down and explained very carefully why that&#039;s naughty and we don&#039;t do it. That&#039;s all it took at his age; he felt really bad, and he was fine after that, and it was never a problem again. But for the teens who continue to do this, they&#039;ve obviously moved way past that and need some serious help.

Stories like this just break my heart. I feel so bad for the girl&#039;s family. She had not seen her dad in several months and was supposed to go visit him soon. I can only imagine the trauma they&#039;re experiencing right now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent blog. I was there too &#8212; not at this particular one, but 25 years ago when I was 15 years old growing up in Michigan. I was bullied from the time I was in elementary school right on up into high school. And NOBODY would help&#8211;not the parents, and certainly not the teachers. (And for goodness sakes, some of the teachers in elementary school even seemed afraid of the bullies themselves. And to add to that, my dad worked at my school, and still nothing was done.)</p>
<p>As adults it&#8217;s easy to laugh off the taunts of somebody&#8230; or just leave. But children don&#8217;t have either luxury. As a child, the taunts *hurt* but my parents didn&#8217;t understand. &#8220;So what if they said that to you,&#8221; and &#8220;just ignore them,&#8221; my parents would say. As if that would actually help a 10 year old. And I certainly couldn&#8217;t leave; I was forced to sit in the same classroom as these people day by day.</p>
<p>Now grown, my sister was faced with the same problem with her daughter being bullied; she took action and began home-schooling her daughter. I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s the answer either, but at least it got her away from the trouble.</p>
<p>But what I don&#8217;t understand is WHERE are the parents of the bullies? Do they honestly not care that their kids are doing this? My boy is in kindergarten and he&#8217;s a very nice boy, but once he picked on another kid. I got word of that and I sat him down and explained very carefully why that&#8217;s naughty and we don&#8217;t do it. That&#8217;s all it took at his age; he felt really bad, and he was fine after that, and it was never a problem again. But for the teens who continue to do this, they&#8217;ve obviously moved way past that and need some serious help.</p>
<p>Stories like this just break my heart. I feel so bad for the girl&#8217;s family. She had not seen her dad in several months and was supposed to go visit him soon. I can only imagine the trauma they&#8217;re experiencing right now.</p>
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		<title>By: Margaret Fernandez</title>
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		<dc:creator>Margaret Fernandez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am an adult with aspergers.  I have been bullied by words my entire existence.  Centering yourself around people that are mean is impossible not to avoid.  People are mean.  Mean people are the most common type of person I come across.  Is it a force against me?  I do think people pick up on weak souls and sad souls and they are drawn to us to hurt us and build themselves up.  I am a weak soul socially, I never know what to do to handle it.  But as a mother of two and a graduate student in the special education program I plan to develop a program to teach the skills and awareness for both the weak souls and the mean ones.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am an adult with aspergers.  I have been bullied by words my entire existence.  Centering yourself around people that are mean is impossible not to avoid.  People are mean.  Mean people are the most common type of person I come across.  Is it a force against me?  I do think people pick up on weak souls and sad souls and they are drawn to us to hurt us and build themselves up.  I am a weak soul socially, I never know what to do to handle it.  But as a mother of two and a graduate student in the special education program I plan to develop a program to teach the skills and awareness for both the weak souls and the mean ones.</p>
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