When you think of a bully, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Is it someone on TV? Someone you saw in a movie? Someone you see every day?
- A bully is usually not a happy person, not someone who smiles or is easy to get along with.
- A bully usually acts mean and angry much of the time and says things that frighten people, or hurt their feelings, like “Shut up!” or “Do what I say!” or “You’re stupid!”
- When we run into a bully, we may get scared and freeze, we may want to run away, or fight w/the bully, or cry.
But a bully is someone who has a problem, too.
- When we run into a bully, we are concerned about ourselves and our safety, and usually don’t stop to think about the bully. That’s normal.
- If we stop and think, we realize that a bully is someone w/a problem. He is not happy, and there’s probably a reason for that. The bully may have had a bad day, a bad week, a bad year.
- You know, most bullies become bullies, probably because someone once bullied them.
