It's going to be a long summer. I need advice....sm
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fed up on 2007-05-25
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on how to handle the neighborhood bully. He's 11 years old and probably weighs 250 pounds. He's very immature and very pushy and overbearing with the other kids in the neighborhood. We live in a townhouse and there are 13 townhouses in this particular area. My daughter is 9. There are 4 girls and 3 boys, all ranging in age from 4 to 13. We have lived here for 2 years and have never had any problems until the bully moved in. At first he was very nice but I guess he is getting comfortable now and his true colors are coming out. We had an incident last night and I had to go out and take care of it. His mother wasn't home at the time and as soon as she got home she marched right over to my apt. demanding to know "what was going on." After my conversation with her I began to understand why the bully is like he is. Anyway, I have told my daughter she has to stay in front of our townhouses and is not to go anywhere else. The other kids are welcome to come here and play but not the bully. If I have to I will enroll her in something part-time for the summer. It makes me mad that you have to punish the good kids because of 1 bad egg. I told the mother it was a shame that the rest of the neighborhood had to pay the price because of the way her son acted. Of course, she had every excuse in the world for his behavior but I think it just boils down to lack of discipline and lack of interest on the parents' part. He is going to be home unsupervised all summer along with a little 5-year-old brother that the mother is getting for the summer. And 2 girls are also going to be home all day unsupervised. One is 13 and the other 8 but they too are very immature for their age. I'm just aggravated. What is wrong with today's parents? |
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