This deserves more upvotes.

Bullies COUNT on you 'turning the other cheek' or 'taking the high road' or whatever else people want to call it. Because it means that there are no consequences for their actions. 'Silence means assent' is the bullies' creed, because as long as no one stops them it means it is ok for them to continue.

Same goes for “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me”. Absolute B******T. Words hurt just as much—-and potentially stay with you and affect you for the rest of your life. The saying should be “broken bones will heal, but cruel words can hurt forever”.

I was bullied a lot by this one guy till I jabbed him with scissors and drew blood. He didnt f**k with me after that.

"Hahaha She's not even crying. Probably because she's so used to people picking on her." - heard from one of the random bullies in my home ec. class. Who went to a different school and just picked on me (as well as others in my class) just because she thought she was so tough. She punched my friend in the nose for no reason, in class and wasn't kicked out of the course for good.

My favorite is the "he's picking on you because he likes you" cr@p adults liked to say when I came to them for the millionth time because so and so took my jacket/notebook/pencil AGAIN and punched me/tried to push me down the stairs.

We always told our son we have his back when it's self-defence, whatever the school says. After two years of being bullied and the school ignoring the problem, my husband told the teacher he had given our son permission to punch the other kid in the face and I quote: " 'till his nose bleeds." There was no blood involved, but the bully stopped.

in 10th grade, we moved states. I was 4ft 9 inches tall and weighed maybe 80 lbs. At the new school, I was placed in a class with all the football players and the cheerleaders. The football coach was the teacher. On the first test, I got a 98 and blew the bell curve. So a bunch of football players and cheerleaders failed, so the couldn't play. The team lost their next game very badly. So I got the typical threatening intimidation from the 5' 11" 250Lb defensive nose guard that failed the test. "You caused us to lose the game. I am gonna kick your a*s after school." He wasn't the sharpest pencil in the box. He was leaning against the lockers while saying this. Well, the hinged side of my locker door was on his side. He leaned in to threaten me some more, and I slammed the locker door in his face as hard as I could. I broke his nose. He couldn't play football for the next 8 weeks while it healed. That gained me detention, and ruined the teams complete season. Continued:

You just have to tell them: "I think there's a misunderstanding: you think I can't beat your a*s and make it look like an accident..."

"Turning the other cheek" is a primitive religious idea that's pure fantasy.

My MOM taught me to pick the biggest one and beat the cr*p out of them the first time, then you'll allegedly be good for the rest of the year. She even told me that if the police got involved she'd back me??? Yeah,I looked like an adult in 5th grade, but thought I would seriously hurt someone if I "went off." I never did and suffered bullies all through school.

The only way is to fight back. I was the skinny guy with glasses, but I would go berserk. Nothing is as scary for a bully as somebody who doesn't care about getting hurt themselves, so long as they also hurt th ebully too. Bullies are, first and foremost, cowards.

If you ignore them in a way that expresses that you 110% are not bothered it works. Like they pick on people they get a rise out of. If look bothered or are not a good actor and try to ignore them it doesn't work.

Told this a lot as a child. Cut forward to me now in high school. Pent up rage has made me kinda bloodthirsty, honestly itching for anyone to give me a reason to attack them. I guess as a way to get back at bullies or something.

fight back. in middle school this one boy kept knocking my books out of my hand. I got tired of it one day and threw one of the books at him. he never did it again. hit them back

Yep! Usually, the only way is to stand up to them, and sometimes it takes more than once

I went the Liam Neeson route, 30 years before there was a Liam Neeson: "I can't stop you from beating me up, but when I take my revenge--and I will take it--you won't ever see it coming, and it will be worse than anything you can imagine." Everyone knew I was the school chemistry nerd, so no one dared cross me. (And just to be clear, this was long before the days of school shootings or pipe bombs, so it wasn't that kind of threat--the bullies believed I would come up with some much more exotic form of chemical revenge.)

I'd try to do the right thing and tell a grownup. Half the time, my teachers would just look the other way. Thanks for sticking up for us.

Bullies are cowards who are enabled by those who believe this c**p

So true. Some bullies give up easily. I was being harassed so much by neighbours when they got together & they didn't give up easily. When I did ignore them for weeks they just stepped up the harassment to get me to react as they knew which buttons to press. Thank goodness two of them moved out and one of them now keeps himself to himself.

There's always a wise way to end bullies. Do the research. My research, I found out that making a portrait/artwork of what you thought of them as usually stops them cold. Just make sure you do a real good job. Telling someone " make my life more miserable and you'll make even more money for me" . As a last resort look for the right time to punch them in the face. In the end do your research. Not all of these techniques will work since some are just too dumb to get the message. 😛

With luck they’ll do it later and end up in court.

Intimidate them good one time and they will leave you alone.

Turn round and loudly face them - it works wonders 🙂

Taekwondo lessons should be taught in 7th grade. It would stop bullying very effectively.

As a HS teacher, I am very sensitive to bullied students. But sometimes the victim is also a bully. There are some hard cases where it is not definite which side to take.

There's literally no way out of this s**t. If you fight, you're blamed, and they're better than you anyways. If you let it get to you, they're satisfied and keep returning for that satisfaction. If you ignore them, they keep doing it because there's no consequence. There is no way out.

They still try to sell this lie

48 and still am winging it

Tax all religious institutions d@mn it!!!

As an adult who knows many adults, no.

then why won't the government make a minimum wage enough to pay rent 😭 (I would prefer not to have arguments in the replies please)

I wanted to be a dragon rider, but no, stupid discriminatory rules because some idiot thought vampires like dragon blood! Everyone knows it tastes terrible and has horrible side effects! My friend died from a dragon blood overdose, do you really think I want anything to do with that? And besides, why would I hurt a dragon?

Send your kid to a trade school if you can. Thank you mom.

You’ll want kids when you’re older. It's now scientifically confirmed that this is bogus in most cases. They made a big survey with thousands of people and asked them if they wanted children when they were young and if that changed when they grew older, and the consensus was that the decision is stable into aduldhood and that people who let others pressure them into having kids despite not really wanting them were regretting it

Is college really that easy ??? I'm in a french university and it's a billion times harder than high school.

Respect is earned. I can treat someone with dignity even if I don't respect them

And it's smarter to go into an apprenticeship like plumbing or mechanic that pays you to learn than pay college to learn and get a degree you'll never use

Here's the thing. In my job, you see a lot of 'black box' users. Meaning they push a button, get a number and go 'well that must be the right answer.' But if you don't know HOW it is getting that answer, you don't know if that number really is right. Same goes even for basic math on a calculator. If you don't understand math, how do you know your calculator worked? How do you know you didn't miss enter something? Or even just that the program had a random glitch? Just because you have a calculator doesn't mean it is ok to not learn math. Further, a lot times what you are learning is not just how to do math, but how to approach problems in general. Figuring out how to solve that math problem on your homework gives you strategies for figuring out how to solve other problems in completely different areas of your life.

My daughter kicked a bully in the stomach. But not because he bullied her but because he bullied her trans friend. I wasn't sure how to respond to that story because the school didn't know about it.

I was just talking to my mom today about anxiety regarding the dentist/dental visits. One of the very FEW things my mom did right when I was a kid was get me used to going to the dentist for checkups/etc. when I was very young, and she picked an excellent pediatric dentist. I'm very fortunate that I've never had ANY fear or anxiety about visiting the dentist. I've never had a cavity, and I can fall asleep during dental cleanings XD My mom gets mega anxiety, as does my ex. My ex has to take Valium before an appointment just to get through it :( I feel for people who have anxiety with dentists. I guess my mom must have had a moment of actual parental care/love and didn't want me to have anxiety about the dentist, like she did.

My late mother was old school. When I couldn't take wearing my heavy Coke-bottle bottom glasses anymore, I decided to get contact lenses. I must have been about 22 at the time. I casually mentioned this to my mother, and she said: "Oh, no! Once you put those things in your eyes, you'll never get them out, and you'll go blind! I know someone, who knows someone, who knows someone's son, so for sure that's the truth!" I still wear contacts to this day. It was the best thing I ever did for my eyes.

Ya'll are BEAUTIFUL GORGEOUS STUNNING and PERFECT no matter what you weigh and I hope you realize that <3

I was told it makes your knuckles bulge. Never actually happened though. The cracking sound is not actually bones you're hearing. It's the bubbles formed in the cartilage popping that you hear. If it were your bones they would quickly erode.