How to respond when kids taunt and make fun of your child
Re: How to respond when kids taunt and make fun of your child
Its horrible to say but I'm a bus aide for disabled kids and some of them can be quite mean to each other on the bus. Lately it really ticks me off just today I heard one boy calling another a retard I just looked at him and said don't forget your riding the short bus to genius. Last year when he was the one being picked on his father came on the bus screaming at the kids now that its his kid being mean he tells me thats just the way boys make friends. Mare
Re: How to respond when kids taunt and make fun of your child
Humor is deffinately an affective way to deal with the name calling and taunting. I am 18 and dealt with these issues mostly in elementary school and some in middle school. At first it was hard for me to take it humorously and then when I met another person with a BPI (which was a complete Godsend) when I was in 5th grade he was a pastor and offered to let me stay with him for a few weeks and i learned through his goofy, good humored attitude that it was only a big deal if I made it that way. By the time I came home I had a totally new outlook and we both still call each other "lefty".
I have also found that even if you can't take those sort of things humorously, there is almost always someone there who's got your back. Last year, I took an intense, hands on, week long class where you build an acoustic guitar in one week. During that class there was a procedure that I was having trouble with where you needed to push a router with your left hand and guide with your right. While I struggled to perform this procedure, one of the class helpers who was one of those condescending doctor types tried to take the router from me and tell me I couldnt do it. I could not so much as open my mouth before one of the larger men in the class had knocked him almost to the floor, said a few choice words to him, and then proceded to tell me how if I pushed it backwards with my right hand and guided with my left that it did the exact same thing.
So even when you dont know anybody around you, there is usually someone behind you ready to pounce at the first inconciderate word and if they're not, there is always someone on here who will, even if its after the fact. Hope I didn't take up too much room.
keep on truckin,
"lefty" #2
I have also found that even if you can't take those sort of things humorously, there is almost always someone there who's got your back. Last year, I took an intense, hands on, week long class where you build an acoustic guitar in one week. During that class there was a procedure that I was having trouble with where you needed to push a router with your left hand and guide with your right. While I struggled to perform this procedure, one of the class helpers who was one of those condescending doctor types tried to take the router from me and tell me I couldnt do it. I could not so much as open my mouth before one of the larger men in the class had knocked him almost to the floor, said a few choice words to him, and then proceded to tell me how if I pushed it backwards with my right hand and guided with my left that it did the exact same thing.
So even when you dont know anybody around you, there is usually someone behind you ready to pounce at the first inconciderate word and if they're not, there is always someone on here who will, even if its after the fact. Hope I didn't take up too much room.
keep on truckin,
"lefty" #2