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Now I'm over the weekend. It was a story on shade room about a father and his son his son was being bullied. They were they live in Houston and um he decided to go to the school and try to get it resolved the school did nothing. So he talked to the bully.

And I guess after talking to the bully he found he realized that the bully was only bullying because he believed that the bully didn't have I guess clean clothes and new clothes so he decided to take the bully on a shopping spree.

So the bully was being bullied himself. Right. That's yeah. Okay. Go ahead. So he took him on a shopping spree and um people were talking about it all weekend. You know some people were saying this is a great thing and that's you know that's what it takes.

It takes it takes a village to raise a child and some people was like I wouldn't do it. I you know I necessarily wouldn't have done it and I thought about it. You know we talked about it on on on a breakfast club. And I don't think I would have did either. You know it's just from somebody that was was bullied in school and somebody that was dealing with being bullying because our kids were bullied for a little bit. I don't think I would.

I guess reward a bully for bullying my child and you know for my child I wasn't what him to think that he came to me for protection. It came to me because he had a problem and it resulted in me taking the other child on a shopping spree especially at age eight when I think a lot of kids don't necessarily understand.

So that was my stance. Now the fact that the young boy I believe needed clothes and was homeless and didn't have clothes that's that's a different conversation in my opinion.

For me the first thing would be was to make sure that my son was okay and to make sure that my son was good because if this kid bullied my son I would think about it.

Wabbin if another kid did it Wabbin if another kid did it Wabbin if another kid did it and not only that you know was I starting a precedent meaning if one kid bullies my son I take him on a shopping spree and Wabbin if another kid bullies my son and you know I I just wouldn't I don't know I don't know and I think the first thing I would want to do is protect my son and make sure my son was good and make sure he was able to protect himself.

I just remember being a kid and being bullied and coming home upset and my dad told me look this is life you know if you stand up to somebody nine times I didn't tell you never have to stand up again.

He said you whether you win or you lose you're not going to win every fight you're not going to lose every fight but the fact that you stand up to somebody who show everybody else in that school that look I'm no punk and you can try whether I win or lose I'm going to fight.

And I remember the day after school you know I got into an incident and I threw the basketball right at the bullies face and you know after school we fought and he beat me up but it wasn't about that it was more about I stood up and I never had a problem again.

And that's what I think is needed sometimes I mean I could be wrong but that's the way I would I would handle it.

What do you think?

Well I think that it's important to stand up to bullies I think that if a bully thinks that they can get away with taking advantage of you and intimidating you day after day that they'll continue to do it.

But I think that this little boy from what we know of the story did what he was supposed to do he came home and he told his parents we don't know if he stood up to the bully we don't know what he's being taught at home regarding bullying but at the end of the day what we do know is that he went home and he spoke to his parents right his parents in my opinion or his father did what he was supposed to do he went to the school to seek assistance when he didn't receive any assistance.

He went to the kid himself which is a bold move because you know some parents would be upset that an adult approached their child but apparently he's he's sane and he has his wits together and he must have approached his child in a delicate enough way where this child felt comfortable enough to tell him what was really going on which was that he was being bullied him so much.

He was being bullied himself right for being homeless maybe for not having clothes and shoes and whatnot and the father did what I think that any compassionate empathetic person would do and not to say that anybody would take the kid shopping but he opened up he opened up his mind to what the child was sharing with him and he cared right and clearly he took it a step further and said you know what what was going on.

Well if this is what's ailing the child and causing him to be disruptive and this is what's you know really stirring him and putting him in a bad place to a point where he wants to harm other children clearly he doesn't have the guidance clearly he doesn't have a home base or people to influence him to do right so I'm going to do what I can.

For him you know what's I mean obviously I don't know what he spent what's maybe a few hundred dollars to take a kid that needs the essentials shopping so that's what he did he showed him compassion and empathy and he opened up his heart and he opened up his wallet and he opened up his time to him and that could have changed that child's life forever because what we know is that the bully and the child being bullied became friends.

Right. So maybe that's all that that child needed someone to pay attention to him because what he was doing was clearly acting out right and you know he's eight he's eight years old he's past being a toddler and eight year old has you know some sense about him but I don't think that even at the age of eight kids turn into bullies because they just want to be me.

A lot of times they do it because either it's something that they inherited genetically you know because a lot of times our personalities and our disposition are things that we get honestly from our parents or grandparents or you know someone in our lineage or because of what they're being taught how they're being raised or based on the fact that they're not being raised and they're not being taught and they're

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