What can the father of an 11-year-old girl do when he discovers he is a victim of bullying? What do you do if when you realize all this remember that the son of some friends committed suicide with 13 years, also a victim of bullying? Well, I don't know very well what to answer, but a good way to help your daughter and all the children that are in that situation is making a video.
A video he has made public in which he talks about it and in which he explains who are to blame, even giving names and surnames. A video to explain that this is still happening and a video to indirectly receive the support of an entire society, and make the girl see that it is not normal or acceptable to be treated that way.
The father of the harassing girls is also guilty
And all this he did after trying to talk to the parents of the girls who, one good (bad) day decided to send messages insulting her and laughing at her. When he finally got it, he received no more than misunderstanding and teasing. Something like "leave them, it's normal, they're girls' stuff."
But no, with 11 years she is no longer a girl. You are old enough and mature enough to know how to differentiate what a game is and what is not, so this father decided to act and end, to try to prevent the thing from getting older and that his daughter would arrive someday To think about doing something terrible, just to stop suffering.
Be very careful with the expressions we use at home
Would the twins in the video be equally despicable if their father were someone else? Probably not. The contempt towards other people for the differences that we can have one or the other has been cooking since early childhood. Children receive messages and comments that are not addressed to them, of insult, disapproval or in the form of jokes, and they are internalized.
That is why we must be very careful with the expressions we use at home and be very consistent with our opinions, because they are sponges that absorb our way of thinking, they internalize and modify (or not) until one day they "squeeze" And they take it out.
For children to be respectful and tolerant of others, we must be too, away from home, but also inside. In addition, we must be clear that "children's things" are games, laughter and, if you hurry me, some minor quarrel that you probably know how to solve alone. If we go into insults, disqualifications and do psychological damage for pure fun, it stops being banal and becomes bullying, which is something much more serious.
