Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Tuesday, September 1st,

The Before Bullying Begins Edition.

I'm Elizabeth New Camp.

I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch, Dutch Goose and I'm the mom to Three Littles, Henry Eight, Oliver Six and Teddy Three and I'm currently located in Navarre, Florida.

I'm a writer, contributor to Slates

Karen Feeding Parenting Column, and mom to Naima who is seven and we live in

Los Angeles, California. On today's show we'll be talking about how to

prepare your kids to respond if bullying occurs

and to avoid becoming bullies themselves with the great Emily Baslan.

But before we get to that, we have Triumph and Fales.

Jemilla, do you have a we have triumph for us today.

I have a historical triumph that relates to bullying.

I feel like I might have told the story on the show before,

but I feel like I might have told it on like the

regular show a long time ago so I'll tell it again because it's a good one it's my

classic bullying story so when I was in first grade there was a third grader by the

name of John Pitts and we wrote the same school bus.

Our school bus was often late for whatever reason. I think maybe the driver had another route

before he picked us up and so we'd have to oftentimes like wait in the lunchroom

for our bus route to be taken home.

It was a big school.

There was like 2,000 kids or mine.

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