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In reply to the discussion: I’ve read much on the heroics of confronting bulliess recently, that too has a dark side… [View all]It always depends on the situation, I think. Is it chronic? Have other methods been tried?
That said, I'll never forget my older sister saving me from bullies all through elementary and junior high (until I started winning my own fights, to be honest). It's burnt into my memory, forever -- her charging down the street with her backpack on and her trumpet case. More than once she dived into the middle of a crowd of bigger, older boys and started spinning, her skirt flying, and that trumpet-case knocking heads. Once she was suspended for biting one of these bullies when they pinned her down on the playground the next day.
My mother was FURIOUS. What'd he expect? (As I recall it was one of the Holiday boys - my childhood tormentors.)
And she is very much my hero. So while there might be consequences, sometimes that's just the price we pay for doing what's necessary at the time.